Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.
For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.
Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
I love working with Chanel, and long may it reign, to be honest. I hope it lasts forever.
He (Jesus) will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it.
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
Just because my reign had already ended doesn't mean that I have to forget the things I have done as Miss Universe.
It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns,
As I crush so-called Willies, thugs, and rapper-dons.
The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!
It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.
I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.
I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race.
Because love was a light that wouldn't allow darkness to reign in his soul.
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.
I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.
But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.
I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
I've wept for Haiti a thousand times over the years since my first trip during the Duvalier reign.
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you reign!
In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.
In the first years of the Queen's reign, the level of adulation - you wouldn't believe it. You really wouldn't.
[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.
Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.
Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.
The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.
As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
I let them think I did that" said Jace "My reign of terror continues
Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much.
I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.
A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
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