Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne"
Crowns quotes
Crowns
227 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Elizabeth I
Queen
"To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it."
Frederick The Great
King
"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me."
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"Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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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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"All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!"
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"I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown."
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"The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe."
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"All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation."
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"This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will."
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"Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"My crown is in my heart, not on my head."
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"The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns."
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"Many a crown Covers bald foreheads."
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"The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown."
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"Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him."
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"A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns."
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"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me."
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"Modest humility is beauty's crown."
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"To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine."
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"Our holy lives must win a new world's crown."
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