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Letter "T" » The Crown
«The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.»
Author: Winifred Holtby
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The Crown
«The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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as such, benefactor, benefactors, crown, lentil, merits, raises, raising, receives, rewarded, The Crown
«The crown of literature is poetry.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Poetry
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crown, literature, The Crown
«The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! / For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.»
«The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.»
«Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! / Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.»
«The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: / And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.»
«ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial. These were called Horizontalists, their opponents, Verticalists. The Horizontalist heresy was finally extinguished by Xanobus, the philosopher-king of Abara, a zealous Verticalist. Entering an assembly of philosophers who were debating the matter, he cast a severed human head at the feet of his opponents and asked them to determine its zenith, explaining that its body was hanging by the heels outside. Observing that it was the head of their leader, the Horizontalists hastened to profess themselves converted to whatever opinion the Crown might be pleased to hold, and Horizontalism took its place among _fides defuncti_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
considerably, converted, debating, dissenting opinion, hastened, head over heels, human foot, human head, immaterial, opponents, overhead, profess, severed, The Crown, The Philosopher, zenith
«The White House: I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in American or the crown jewel of the prison system»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
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American System, crown, crown jewel, finest, housing, jewel, prison house, prison system, The Crown, The Finest, The Prison, The White House, White House
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