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To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
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 Elisabetta I
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I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.
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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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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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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
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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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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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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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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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Men fight wars. Women win them.
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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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It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
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Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
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Affection! Affection is false.
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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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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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The end crowneth the work.
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It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.
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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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