Variant: My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
Source: King Henry VI, Part 3
“From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.”
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
"The Day of the People," The Class Struggle Vol. III No. 1 (February 1919) http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1919/daypeople.htm
“Contentment has been worn as a crown by no end of sleepy heads.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
The Wants of Man, stanza 22 (25 September 1841)
Context: I want the seals of power and place,
The ensigns of command,
Charged by the people's unbought grace,
To rule my native land.
Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask
But from my country's will,
By day, by night, to ply the task
Her cup of bliss to fill.
“Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne”
Nas (1973) American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur
The World Is Yours
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)
“The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy.”
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
Letter to William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons (4 September 1651)
“The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.”
Gerald Massey (1828–1907) British poet
The kingliest Kings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A mind content both crown and kingdom is.”
Robert Greene (dramatist) (1558–1592) English author
Song, "Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content", line 12, from Farewell to Folly (1591); Dyce p. 309.
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist
Pt. II, l. 313. <br class="br"> The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
