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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
Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elizabeth I
the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
Queen of England Elisabeth I
Queen of England Bess
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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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 doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.
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It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
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No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.
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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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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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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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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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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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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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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
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I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.
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Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
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God forgive you, but I never can.
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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 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 would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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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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My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.
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