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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
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
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Queen of England Elizabeth I
the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
Queen of England Elisabeth I
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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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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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Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.
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Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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The past cannot be cured.
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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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I don't keep a dog and bark myself.
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[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
Elizabeth I
I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart
Elizabeth I
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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They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
Elizabeth I
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.
Elizabeth I
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.
Elizabeth I
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. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.
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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.
Elizabeth I
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Elizabeth I
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
Elizabeth I
The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.
Elizabeth I
O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
Elizabeth I
