The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that has no cross deserves no crown.
--
Esther (1621), Sec. 9, Meditation 9.Francis Quarles
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My conscience is my crown,
Contented thoughts my rest;
My heart is happy in itself,
My bliss is in my breast.
Enough I reckon wealth;
A mean the surest lot,
That lies too high for base contempt,
Too low for envy's shot.Robert Southwell
The Many is as adorable to the One as the One is to the Many.
This is the Love of These; creation-parturition is the Bliss of the One; coition-dissolution is the Bliss of the Many.
The All, thus interwoven of These, is Bliss.
Naught is beyond Bliss.Aleister Crowley
Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.
Jeremy Taylor
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn
Take from my head the thorn-wreath brown!
No mortal grief deserves that crown.
O supreme Love, chief misery,
The sharp regalia are for Thee
Whose days eternally go on!'Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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