Kings Quotes
These are some of the best 'Kings' quotations and sayings.
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A crown, golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns; brings danger, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights, to him who wears a regal diadem.
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All precepts concerning kings are comprehended in these: remember thou art a man; remember thou art God's vicegerent.
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He on whom Heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
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Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.
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In sovereignty it is a most happy thing not to be compelled, but so it is a most miserable thing not to be counselled.
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It is the misfortune of kings that they scarcely ever do the good they have a mind to do; and through surprise, and the insinuations of flatterers, they often do the mischief they never intended.
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Kings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes told that their best way to become so is to make themselves beloved by the people. This maxim is doubtless a very admirable one, and in some respects true; but unhappily it is laughed at in court.
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Kings' titles commonly begin by force, which time wears off and mellows into right; and power which in one age is tyranny is ripened in the next to true succession.
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Kings, in this chiefly, should imitate God; their mercy should be above all their works.
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One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion.
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Princes are never without flatterers to seduce them; ambition to deprave them; and desires to corrupt them.
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The example of a vicious prince will corrupt an age, but that of a good one will not reform it.
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The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.
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The kingdom of God is the only absolute monarchy that is free from despotism.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
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