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I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart

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
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I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.
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Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
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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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The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.
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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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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
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It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.
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I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.
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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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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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The past cannot be cured.
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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.
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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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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
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Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
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I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.
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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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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
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