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• Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

  James A. Baldwin

  Has Beens, Paid

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• No one who wears a crown is ever safe.

  George R. R. Martin

  Safe

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.181, Bantam

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• A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

  Pearl Bailey

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

  Elizabeth I

  Suffering, Reputation, Extremes

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• Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

  Ovid

  Giving, Victory, Opponents

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• That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sweet, Perfect, Fruition

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7

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• Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

  Robert Herrick

  Fighting, Victory, Firsts

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Winning

  Louisa May Alcott (2017). “The Complete Poetry by Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) (PublishDrive)

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• Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Vision, Thrones, Empires

  Herbert Kaufman (1910). “The Winning Fight”

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• To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fighting, Power, Gains

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• He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

  Francis Quarles

  Literature, Crosses, Deserve

  "Hadassa". 1621.

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• If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Lady Macbeth, May

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Macbeth Act I, Scene 3, l. 143

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• The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come! Tra-la-la-lally! Come back to the valley!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Dragons, White

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Greatness, Guilt, Criminals

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• Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

  Althea Gibson

  Tennis, Champion, Wells

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• The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Kings

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• Humility is royalty without a crown.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Humility, Stay Humble, Royalty

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• Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

  George Noory

  Leader, Wish, Aliens

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• Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

  Franz Kafka

  Vices, Literature, Virtue

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down

  Elvis Costello

  Men, Skins, Flags

  Song: Why Can't A Man Stand Alone?, Album: All This Useless Beauty, 1996

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• We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

  William Booth

  Wake Up, Bears, Belief

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• A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rose, Thorns, Crown Of Thorns

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• To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

  Pierre Corneille

  Life And Love, Revenge, Hatred

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• Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

  Lauryn Hill

  Practice, Breathing, Attention

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• ...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless they are drawn firmly together by the crown of prayer. This endless, unstirring calm of prayer... can neither be achieved nor consummated without these virtues. And likewise virtues are the prerequisite foundation of prayer and cannot be effected without it.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Prayer, Perfect

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