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"I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow."
"Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat."
"God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?"
". . from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done."
"Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last."
"Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court."
"Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world."
"Opinion crowns with an imperial voice."
"Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns."
"The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong."
"The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off."
"I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him."
"I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty."
"Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust."
"How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?"
"It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?"
"O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?"
"Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning."
"[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble."
"Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners."
