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- A crow is no whiter for being washed.
- French Proverb
- Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
- American Proverb
- The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
- Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
- At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below. - Theodosia Garrison
- The hoary head is a crown of glory.
- Bible, Proverbs xvi. 31.
- Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life.
- Bible, James i. 12.
- In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
- Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905
- I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
- Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
- I tell ya, if you want to disperse a crowd, start spittin' on 'em.
- Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask A Ninja, 06-08-07
- No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 2
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