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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
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Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
Letter to John Thaxter, 15 February 1778 -
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.
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Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
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The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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