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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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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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Queen Of England
Greenwich Palace
The Virgin Queen
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Elizabeth I
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the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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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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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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[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
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For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.
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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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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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God forgive you, but I never can.
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It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
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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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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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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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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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Affection! Affection is false.
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Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
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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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Men fight wars. Women win them.
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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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