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• ... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

  Dean Koontz

  Bitterness, Worn

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• Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

  Alexander Pope

  Grace, Soldier, Triumph

  Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Death to life is crown or shame.

  John Milton

  Life Is, Shame

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.1579.

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• No two on earth in all things can agree;
  All have some darling singularity;
  Women and men, as well as girls and boys,
  In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys,
  Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things,
  Are but a better kind of toys for kings.
  In things indifferent reason bids us choose,
  Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.

  Charles Churchill

  Girl, Kings, Boys

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.95

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• All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Fool, Truth Is

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1647, Bantam

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• I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Crazy, Party, Thinking

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• Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Faith, Knowledge

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• Years! Years, ye shall mix with me!
  Ye shall grow a part
  Of the laughing Sea;
  Of the moaning heart
  Of the glittered wave
  Of the sun-gleam's dart
  In the ocean-grave.
  Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own!
  For that I love
  Thy heart of stone!
  From the heights above
  To the depths below,
  Where dread things move,
  
  There is naught can show
  A life so trustless! Proud be thy crown!
  Ruthless, like none, save the Sea, alone!

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Life, Ocean, Moving

  "The Dirge of the Sea". Poem by Voltairine de Cleyre, April 1891.

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• Ah yes, the man or the crown. I'm afraid some can't tell the difference.

  Kiera Cass

  Men, Differences

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.53, HarperCollins

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• Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Friendship, Sweet, Rose

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• . . from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hands, Done

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Art, Science

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.113

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• Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year . . The Rose still blushes, and the vi'lets blow.

  Samuel Garth

  Spring, Blow, Air

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• My feet might fail me, my heart might ail me,
  The synagogues of Satan might accuse or jail me,
  Strip, crown, nail me, brimstone hail me...
  They might defeat the flesh but they could never ever kill me.
  They might feel the music but could never ever feel me.

  Jay Electronica

  Rap, Heart, Feet

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• And the sun had on a crown
  Wrought of gilded thistledown,
  And a scarf of velvet vapor
  And a raveled rainbow gown;
  And his tinsel-tangled hair
  Tossed and lost upon the air
  Was glossier and flossier
  Than any anywhere.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Hair, Rainbow, Tangled

  James Whitcomb Riley (2010). “Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures”, p.106, Indiana University Press

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• The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.

  Ambrose

  Devil, May, Tests

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• I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Party, Kids, Childhood

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• I think we have such a crown jewel in the forgiveness of God, and it changes people's lives.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Jewels, People

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

  Victor Hugo

  Fear, Criminals, Use

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• And this is the only sound you should fear, man these kids wear crowns over here and everything is alright

  Drake

  Kids, Men, Hip Hop

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

  Jean-Claude Biver

  Ideas, Design, Watches

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• Some of us want the crown before the cross.

  Billy Graham

  Choices, Want, Crosses

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• Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.

  William Shakespeare

  Winning, World, Holy

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.138

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• It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

  Robert Herrick

  Fighting, Ends, Human Condition

  'The End'

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• The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

  William Blake

  Poison, Fame, Laurels

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 97

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