Throne
A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary.
Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage.
A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.
To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.
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Throne Quotations
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
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell
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
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Wallace Stevens
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
William Ralph Inge
Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
King Solomon
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
Maximilien Robespierre
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
Throne Translations
throne in Dutch is troon
throne in German is Thron
throne in Italian is trono
throne in Spanish is trono
throne in Swedish is tron
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