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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
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The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
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He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
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[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
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I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.
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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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There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.
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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.
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If we still advise we shall never do.
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