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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
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As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
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God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
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Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
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My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.
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Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 203 -
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
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