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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

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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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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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 don't keep a dog and bark myself.
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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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I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
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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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My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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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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... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.
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