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Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
--
Constance, scene i

 

King of England John

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United yet divided, twain at once:
So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne.

 

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Richard Wurmbrand

 

How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne, and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power

 

Robert Jordan

 

When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crown.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.

 

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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they'd learned to swim
Surrounding me, going down on me
Spilling over the brim
Waves of regret and waves of joy.
I reached out for the one I tried to destroy.
You, you said you'd wait till the end of the world.

 

Larry Mullen