"But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering."
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"The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!"
"I don't want to get them in trouble for crimes in the early '90s - but there was usually like one pub that was the soft touch in terms of you could get served under 18, and that pub was The Rose and Crown."
"Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves."
"If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance."
"The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown."
"All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown."
"The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul."
"What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown."
"Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it."
"Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue."
"The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves."
"I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword."
"Some of us want the crown before the cross."
"A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor."
"It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds."
"As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public."
"Obedience is the Christian's crown."
"Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?"
"The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches."