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Men fight wars. Women win them.

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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Good Queen Bess
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
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the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
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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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The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.
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The end crowneth the work.
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Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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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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Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
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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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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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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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I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.
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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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[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.
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There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
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