#crown

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory. ↗

— Ovid

#gain #give #opponent #thus #victory

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. ↗

— Petrarch

#grace #humanity #love #love is

Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#benefits #crowns #enjoy #entitled #even

He that hath no cross deserves no crown. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#crown #deserves #hath

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. ↗

— Pat Riley

#ambition #career #crown #greatest #honorable

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. ↗

— George Ripley

#benefit #century #crowning #discover #glory

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. ↗

— Frederic Chopin

#after #art #crowning #emerges #final

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir. ↗

— Jane Grey

#heir #lady #mary #me #right

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#contend #crowns #end #fight #first

I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that! ↗

— Nafisa Joseph

#certainly #crown #go #going #i