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«Can Christ be in thy heart, and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul, and thou hear no scuffle?»
Author: William Gurnall
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crowned, dethrone, dethroned, dethroning, scuffle, The King of Hearts
«Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.»
Author: Akhenaton
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competitor, contest, crowned, depress, dishonest, excelling, honour, scorn, superiority, unworthy, with success
«How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.»
«In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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Slavery
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«Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.»
«But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.»
Author: Bible
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Angel of death, crowned, Crown of Glory, death angel, grace of God, The Angels
«And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.»
«LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«An illiterate king is a crowned ass»
«He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.»
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