A Quote by Mark Akenside

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Mark Akenside

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Crown Disguise Forget He Man Know Lies Man Mortal Rags Though Through

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Mark Akenside
English - Poet
November 9, 1721 - June 23, 1770

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Mark Akenside

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.

Milan Kundera

The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it.

Stephen Crane

You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

Tom Robbins

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

Dawn Addams

Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.

Queen Latifah

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Jean Giraudoux

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Honore de Balzac

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

Jonathan Swift

But what an mortal man do to secure his own salvation?" Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. Be can repent and believe. He can arise and follow Christ as Matthew did.

Washington Gladden

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.