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God forgive you, but I never can.

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
Forgive
Forgiving
Never

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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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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst
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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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I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
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[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
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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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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.
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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
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