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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

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
Greenwich Palace
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Good Queen Bess
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
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the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
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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 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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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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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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The word must is not to be used to princes.
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Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
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I would not open windows into men's souls.
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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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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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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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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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It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.
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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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I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.
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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
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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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