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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
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The past cannot be cured.
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
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I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.
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Affection! Affection is false.
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My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
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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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... [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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we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.
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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst
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A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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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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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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