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If we still advise we shall never do.

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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
Never
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[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.
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Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.
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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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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
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I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.
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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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[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
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The past cannot be cured.
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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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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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I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.
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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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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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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 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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Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
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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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If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
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