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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst
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
The Virgin Queen
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Good Queen Bess
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elizabeth I
the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
Queen of England Elisabeth I
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The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.
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Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
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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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I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.
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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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If we still advise we shall never do.
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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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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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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It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.
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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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The word must is not to be used to princes.
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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. 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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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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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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The past cannot be cured.
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