Crown Quotes - page 2

Let us not despair; it is a blessed cause, and success, ere long, will crown our exertions. Already we have gained one victory; we have obtained, for these poor creatures, the recognition of their human nature, which, for a while was most shamefully denied. This is the first fruits of our efforts; let us persevere and our triumph will be complete. Never, never will we desist till we have wiped away this scandal from the Christian name, released ourselves from the load of guilt, under which we at present labour, and extinguished every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times, will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonour to this country. (William Wilberforce)
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
John Wesley
Many a crown shines spotless now That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
Friedrich Schiller
I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone.
Leslie Feist
And sometimes when I am weary, When the path is thorny and Wild, I'll look back to the Eyes in the twilight, Back to the eyes that smiled. And pray that a wreath like a rainbow May slip from the beautiful past, And Crown me again with the sweet, strong love And keep me, and hold me fast.
Voltairine de Cleyre
Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel.
Oliver Goldsmith
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Og Mandino
We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.
Marianne Williamson
Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.
Huey Long
Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
Aneurin Bevan
From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it. (Eugene V. Debs)
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
Albert Camus
The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.
Sadao Araki
When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
Jack Welch
A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
Lloyd Alexander
A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
Lloyd Alexander
And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!"
Plutarch
There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.
Charles James Fox
We will cut off his (the king's) head with the crown on it.
Oliver Cromwell
The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below.
James Russell Lowell
Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the folk who keep the Dead down Three and Five became stone and mortar Four sees all in frozen water. (Garth Nix)
You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that has no cross deserves no crown.
Francis Quarles
Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.
Matthew Henry
My crown is in my heart, not on my head Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen my crown is call'd content A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare