"On silver necklaces they strung The flowering stars,……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"On silver necklaces they strung The flowering stars, on crowns they hung The dragon-fire, in twisted wire They meshed the light of moon and sun."
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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More Crowns Quotes
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us…
— William Booth
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown…
— James Buchan
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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men…
— Madeleine Albright
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how…
— Julie Andrews
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and…
— Marie Antoinette
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or…
— George Arnold
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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand,…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his…
— Paul Klee
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