Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XXII : Knight of the Royal Axe, or Prince of Libanus, p. 341
Context: Whatsoever of morality and intelligence; what of patience, perseverance, faithfulness, of method, insight, ingenuity, energy; in a word, whatsoever of Strength a man has in him, will lie written in the Work he does. To work is to try himself against Nature and her unerring, everlasting laws: and they will return true verdict as to him. The noblest Epic is a mighty Empire slowly built together, a mighty series of heroic deeds, a mighty conquest over chaos. Deeds are greater than words. They have a life, mute, but undeniable; and grow. They people the vacuity of Time, and make it green and worthy.
Labor is the truest emblem of God, the Architect and Eternal Maker; noble Labor, which is yet to be the King of this Earth, and sit on the highest Throne. Men without duties to do, are like trees planted on precipices; from the roots of which all the earth has crumbled. Nature owns no man who is not also a Martyr. She scorns the man who sits screened from all work, from want, danger, hardship, the victory over which is work; and has all his work and battling done by other men; and yet there are men who pride themselves that they and theirs have done no work time out of mind. So neither have the swine.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 367.
“United yet divided, twain at once:
So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book I, The Sofa, Line 77.
Speech in the Star Chamber http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst201/SpeechJud.htm(June 1616)[citation needed]
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 120
A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
Book III, Ch. 13
Essais (1595), Book III
Source: The Complete Essays
Context: No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
“Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.”
Source: The Human Use of Human Beings (1950), p. 162
“Ctrl+Alt+Del is the Rubbish King, sitting proudly on a throne of rotting meat.”
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Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 171.
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