Royal Quotes - Page 21

• Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Heart, Thrones, Mines

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1875). “Little pillows; or, Good-night thoughts for the little ones”, p.43

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• But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.

  Thomas Paine

  God, Kings, America

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense”, p.34, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.

  Danila Kozlovsky

  Good Friend, Guardian, Very Good

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• Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

  William Ellery Channing

  Book, Reading, Past

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• [...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

  Frederick Douglass

  Heart, Opportunity, Perfection

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• Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

  John Lydon

  Taken, Bipolar, Asylums

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• I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer.

  Prince Philip

  Beer, Care, Classic

  "Prince Philip gaffes: The Duke of Edinburgh's best jokes and witticisms over the years" by Nick Gutteridge, www.express.co.uk. July 16, 2015.

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• Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

  Darrell Royal

  Leadership, Sports, Football

  "Ex-Texas coach Royal dies at age 88", www.sfgate.com. November 7, 2012.

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• No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, People, Matter

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.81, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

  Learned Hand

  Believe, Law Courts, Justice

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• The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Science, Collective Unconscious

  The Interpretation of Dreams ch. 7 (1900)

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