#crown

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#brave #brave soldiers #crown #frighten #frightened

The crown of literature is poetry. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#literature #poetry

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#crowned #king #look #will

Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation. ↗

— Walter Lang

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I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#endurance #great #hearts #passion #patience

One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients. ↗

— David Miliband

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