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• A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Insanity, Littles

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Pride, Hands

  Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography & Selected Writings”, p.64, American Liberty Press

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• The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Hate, Hatred

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• A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Moving, Heart, Ambition

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• Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

  William Penn

  God, World, Mercy

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• History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

  William Morris

  Art, Warrior, People

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

  Saadi

  Intelligent, Needs, Company

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• Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Sleep, Eye

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• Death lays his icy hand on kings.

  James Shirley

  Death, Hands, Icy

  'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3

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  If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

  King Hussein I

  Inspirational, Life, Real

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• Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

  Horace

  Play, People, Suffering

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• A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

  Alexander Pope

  Enemy, Tools, May

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.131

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• 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Time, Shoes, Wonderland

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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• Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Art, Sadness, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

  Marquis de Sade

  Fake People, Tyrants, Literature

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

  Charles I of England

  Power, Voting, Mind

  "Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". P. 76, 1989.

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• Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

  Al-Ghazali

  Desire, Slave

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• Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

  Herbert Spencer

  Mean, Divine Right, Atheism

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.124

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• All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

  Mark Twain

  Ornery, Way, Allowance

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.137, Classics HD

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• The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

  Qin Shi Huang

  War, Suffering, Reason Why

  "Records of the Grand Historian". Book by Sima Qian, 94 BC.

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• I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Smell

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [106]

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• Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

  Nancy Mitford

  Royalty, Glory, Pleasure

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• Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

  Louis XIV

  Death, Thinking, Sorrow

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• Time's glory is to command contending kings,
  To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Truth, Light

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