“ You must leave your many millions, And the gay and festive crowd; Though you roll in royal billions, There's no pocket in a shroud. ”
- John Alexander Joyce- Copy
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“ Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne. ”
- Frances Ridley Havergal- Copy
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“ The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. ”
- Sir William Blackstone- Copy
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“ The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
- 2.9K
“ There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love — every man works his oar voluntarily! ”
- St. Francis De Sales- Copy
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“ There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work. ”
- Charles E. Wilson- Copy
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“ They're loyal Royal all the way. But, they're not tough fans, a player does not have to worry about being insulted there. ”
- Sparky Anderson- Copy
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“ National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. ”
- J. F. C. Fuller- Copy
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“ There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. ”
- J. G. Holland- Copy
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“ If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter. ”
- Max Hastings- Copy
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“ You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals. ”
- Queen Mary- Copy
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“ If it were a person, it would be a woman, a very dignified old lady. She is beautiful. She is royal. She has kept her charms. ”
- Malcolm Miller- Copy
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“ The Duchess of Windsor never tried to hide her American upbringing or her love of fashion, even though the English prefer a royal family dressed in gum boots and head scarves. ”
- Diana Mosley- Copy
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“ The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself . ”
- Queen Victoria- Copy
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“ A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. ”
- Josiah Gilbert Holland- Copy
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“ If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality… ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
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“ I must have done something right because they gave me a grant to the Royal Scottish Academy Of Music And Drama in 1983. But I hated all that stuff they taught me while thumping out the rawness and energy I had. I went off and formed a small experimental, often political, theatre company called Rain Dog to unlearn it. ”
- Robert Carlyle- Copy
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“ Being in a place like the Royal Ballet School and part of an environment where there is so much discipline, where everyone works so hard, it just completely occupies your life. You literally live it and breath it every single day; it becomes who you are… ”
- Will Kemp- Copy
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“ With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres… ”
- Laurence Robert Binyon- Copy
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“ I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces. Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty. I am over instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion? All the cosmetics names seemed obscenely obvious to me in their promises of sexual bliss. They were all firming or uplifting or invigorating… ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, — This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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