Crowned Quotes
93 Crowned quotes by 81 unique authors
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
— St. Jerome
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The only true conqueror who shall be crowned in the end is he who continues until war's trumpet is blown no more.... Christian, wear your…
— Alistair Begg
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Don't you need a fountain of love that won't run dry? You'll find one on a stone-cropped hill outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus hangs, cross-nailed…
— Max Lucado
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When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns…
— John Foxe
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KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to…
— Ambrose Bierce
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We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and…
— Emperor Norton
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Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.
— Eugen Sandow
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Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a…
— Charles Darwin
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In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will…
— Johannes Tauler
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The head that once was crowned with thorns Is crowned with glory now.
— Tom Kelley
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Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth.…
— Duane Michals
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There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned
— Henry Timrod
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked,…
— Peter Abelard
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The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work…
— Aleister Crowley
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I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.
— Curtis Jackson
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Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they…
— Samuel Smiles
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Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.
— Robert Bridges
Who Wrote These Crowned Quotes
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