Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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Bk. III, ch. 7.Thomas Carlyle
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His work well done, the leader stepped aside
Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride.
Content to wear the higher crown of worth,
While time endures, "First citizen of earth."George Washington
Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
Aneurin Bevan
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
I do not believe that the loyalty of those many who over those 270 years, and particularly in this century, worked together and died together as part of the union under the Crown, was to the Crown quite simply, even though they wore the Crown on their uniforms and many of them wore it on their hearts. They were not the mercenaries of a Habsburg empire bound together by personal union and dynastic marriages; they were not the servants of a Hohenzollern empire imposed by military force. It was the Crown of the United Kingdom in parliament which was the centre of loyalty, as it is the essential unifying element of this realm, in the name of which and under the inspiration of which men and women these 270 years have worked and lived and died together.
Enoch Powell
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