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The word must is not to be used to princes.
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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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
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Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
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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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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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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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The end crowneth the work.
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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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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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I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
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Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
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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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Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
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Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
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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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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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I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.
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I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.
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