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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
Politician
Queen Of England
Greenwich Palace
The Virgin Queen
Gloriana
Good Queen Bess
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
Queen Elizabeth I
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the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
Queen of England Elisabeth I
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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
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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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[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
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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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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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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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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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