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• King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.

  Horace Walpole

  Religious, Kings, Husband

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• The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.

  Elgin Groseclose

  Struggle, Spheres, Titles

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• It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Kings, Pain, Government

  Thomas Hobbes, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1999). “The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives”, p.162, Oxford University Press, USA

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• God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Grace, Tamed

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• The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

  Mother Teresa

  Pro Life, Abortion, Parent

  "Speeches that Changed the World". Book edited by Owen Collins, Westminster John Knox Press, p. 431, 1999.

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• Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grace, Sin

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.541, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• It is never the thing but the version of the thing:
  The fragrance of the woman not her self,
  Her self in her manner not the solid block,
  The day in its color not perpending time,
  Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord,
  The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Block, Self

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.332, Vintage

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• It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

  Mark Twain

  Sorry, Ideas, Heaven

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.

  Melville Fuller

  Men, Ideas, Law

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• Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.

  Pedro Pierluisi

  Two, Divergent, Transition

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• There are no term limits on His reign. He has always been King and He always will be King. There is no death that threatens the perpetuity of His sovereign authority. There is no usurping of power by a lesser rival to His throne. There are no coups, no revolutions (at least, none that succeed). There is no threat of impeachment. He is a King who rules eternally.

  Sam Storms

  Kings, Reign, Limits

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• But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time,
  But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue,
  But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love,
  O perfect life in perfect labor writ,
  O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, --
  What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse,
  What least defect or shadow of defect,
  What rumor, tattled by an enemy,
  Of inference loose, what lack of grace
  Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's --
  Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee,
  Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?

  Sidney Lanier

  Best Love, Jesus, Kings

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.32, University of Georgia Press

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• For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.

  Lord Acton

  Children, Government, Opposites

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• The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.131, Penguin

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• Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns

  E.C. Riegel

  Money Power, Realizing

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• No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.

  R. C. Sproul

  Character, Essence, Giving

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• Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.

  Oswald Chambers

  Grace, Soul, Spirit

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• God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable that the unfolding of His purposes will take time - sometimes a very long time.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Long, Purpose, Patient

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• In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.

  Gerald Massey

  Suffering, Immortal, Seeds

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.16

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• Worry springs from not being convinced of a sovereign God's absolute love for you. Worry disappears when you realize that God loves you unfailingly and will let nothing interrupt His plans for your good.

  J. D. Greear

  Spring, Love You, Worry

  J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.56, B&H Publishing Group

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• We, with all of our sin, weakness, and failures are welcome to do what should blow our minds. We are not only tolerated by God at a distance; no, we are welcomed into intimate personal communion with the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the creator, the sovereign, the Savior. We, as unholy as we are, are told to go with confidence into his holy presence.

  Paul David Tripp

  Kings, Distance, Blow

  Paul David Tripp (2013). “Dangerous Calling”, p.200, SPCK

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• Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

  Richard Barnfield

  Queens, Fighting, Soldier

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• My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, People, Taoism

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• Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost.

  Josiah Warren

  Exercise, Men, Liberty

  "Equitable Commerce". Book by Josiah Warren, 1848.

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• Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property.

  Josiah Warren

  Destiny, Men, Individuality

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