Crowns Quotes - Page 22

• Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

  Philip Sidney

  Beautiful, Ambition, Thinking

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.81

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• Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Toil, Brightness, Thorns

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen!
  Bare long after the rest are green;
  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives
  Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--
  Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.
  . . . .
  But by and by, when the flowers grow few
  And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--
  Out she comes in her matron grace
  With the purple myriads of her race;
  Full of plenty from root to crown,
  Showering plenty her feet adown.
  While far over head hang gorgeously
  Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,
  For the best grows highest, always highest,
  Upon the mulberry-tree.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Queens, Flower, Feet

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• 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

  Men, Luxury, Giving

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
  You may get a bland smile from these sages;
  But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
  Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cracks, Wages, Sage

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Family Fool”

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• I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.

  Charles I of England

  World, Remember, Last Words

  "VVith a Relation of the maner of his going to Execution" published by Special Authority, London: Printed by Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1649.

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• The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.

  Henry Adams

  Beautiful, Dog, Spring

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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• Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down

  Tom Petty

  Dirty, Heart, Clouds

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• She couldn’t have been more than twelve years old. In her hands was a sign that said RED-HEADS RULE! with a little crown painted in the corner and tiny stars everywhere. I knew I was the only redhead in the competition, and I noticed that her hair and mine were very nearly the same shade.

  Kiera Cass

  Stars, Hair, Hands

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.40, HarperCollins

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• It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Victory, Safe

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.108, Bantam

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• I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.

  Florence King

  Writing, Literature, Sacred

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• Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

  Martha Ostenso

  Idols, Religion, Thorns

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• There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

  James A. Baldwin

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• This is what our yoga practice is trying to accomplish. Not white light descending from heaven and engulfing you, not energy released from the base of your spine going up through your crown chakra so you become a human lightening bolt, not a halo floating on top of your head. Simply heightened states of awareness, enlightenment, becoming more and more aware which gives more and more insight, which brings wisdom and gives choice. With that wisdom and choice, we become the masters of our destiny and at peace in our life.

  Bryan Kest

  Yoga, Destiny, Light

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• Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath,I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge, All here who died without a voice.

  Suzanne Collins

  Voice, Giving, Choices

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #4: Gregor and the Marks of Secret”, p.185, Scholastic Inc.

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• You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I believe we are what we make ourselves, and as such, you, Crown Princess, are nothing.

  Shannon Hale

  Kings, Believe, Princess

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.64, A&C Black

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• This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.

  George Carlin

  Art, Prayer, Father

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• Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones, Giants aare the island's bones. While this land our dance still knows, Varigal crowns Fincayra. Live long, live long Fincayra.

  T.A. Barron

  Islands, Talking, Long

  T. A. Barron (2011). “The Seven Songs”, p.187, Penguin

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• Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

  Pablo Neruda

  Passion, Soul, Sorrow

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• The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!

  C. S. Lewis

  Monday, Morning, Tomorrow

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.45, Harper Collins

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• Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fighting, Men, Rust

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.786, Bantam

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• Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Queens, Men

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• The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach.
  [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]

  George Herbert

  Royal, Headache, Cures

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• When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Parent, Heaven

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• The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Hatred, Thorns

  Twitter post from Feb 23, 2017

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