Crowns Quotes
427 quotes by 323 authors
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems…
— Aimee Semple McPherson
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Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid…
— Rick Perry
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The jewel in the baby product crown is the stroller. And if in America you are what you drive, then in Parentland, you are what…
— Paul Reiser
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
— Winifred Holtby
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The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
— A. E. Housman
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To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all…
— Lorenz Oken
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The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.
— Robert Greene
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What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice;…
— John Bunyan
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If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We…
— Simonides of Ceos
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A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down…
— James Thomas Fields
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The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all…
— John of Damascus
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Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia.
— Sara Groves
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O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts…
— William Cowper
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