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Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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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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I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart
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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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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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God forgive you, but I never can.
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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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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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Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
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There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
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Men fight wars. Women win them.
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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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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
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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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The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
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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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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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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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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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