Chapter 143: Throne and Dominion

***Grabbed from the illegible notes

of Quiche, the infamous office assistant***

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne,

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

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In the same way the sun never grows weary

of shining, nor a stream of flowing,

it is God's nature to keep His promises.

Therefore, go immediately to His throne

and say, "Do as You promised."

Charles Spurgeon

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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will

be judged not by his acts, but by his

intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Crime butchers innocence to secure

a throne, and innocence struggles with all

its might against the attempts of crime.

Maximilien Robespierre

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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique,

the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten

at the throne of God when the simple

come into their kingdom.

Evelyn Waugh

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The power should be in individual

democracies in individual communities.

It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small

group of elite. Power should be with the

people, and not with some politician

or some heir to the throne or some madman.

Finn Jones

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We read too much Shakespeare at school,

and view our parliamentary politics

as dynastic drama, in which an impatient

crown prince frets at his long subordination

and begins to scheme for the throne

he knows he merits, was promised,

and has earned.

James Buchan

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The motivations of kings in British history

can generally be reduced to two:

the quest for territory

and the quest for a male heir.

No king was secure on his throne until

he had a son, and no queen consort

was ever safe without a boy.

Kate Williams

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We are all bound to the throne of the

Supreme Being by a flexible chain which

restrains without enslaving us.

The most wonderful aspect of the universal

scheme of things is the action of free beings

under divine guidance.

Joseph de Maistre

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When the venerable pontiff's hour has come,

a Roman of good age shall be elected,

of whom it will be said that he dishonored

his throne though he held it long,

with virtuous act.

Nostradamus

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A collective tyrant, spread over the length

and breadth of the land, is no more

acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced

on his throne.

Georges Clemenceau

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