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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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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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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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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.
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we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.
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I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
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My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
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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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Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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If we still advise we shall never do.
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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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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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Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.
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I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.
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There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
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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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Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
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They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
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