The Young King: Quotes

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• "We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free."

  The weaver · Read in context

• "For how shall the people know that thou art a king, if thou hast not a king's raiment?"

  The Chamberlain · Read in context

• "Are not the rich and the poor brothers?"

  The young King · Read in context

• "Shall Joy wear what Grief has fashioned?"

  The young King · Read in context

• "The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer."

  The Bishop · Read in context

• "A greater than I hath crowned thee"

  The Bishop · Read in context