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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
Politician
Queen Of England
Greenwich Palace
The Virgin Queen
Gloriana
Good Queen Bess
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elizabeth I
the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
Queen of England Elisabeth I
Queen of England Bess
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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
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Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
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I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.
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Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
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No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.
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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
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Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.
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A good face is the best letter of recommendation.
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I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
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I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.
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It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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The word must is not to be used to princes.
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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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