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I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

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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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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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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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
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My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
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The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.
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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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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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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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My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.
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God forgive you, but I never can.
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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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[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
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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 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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[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
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