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The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
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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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[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 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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The past cannot be cured.
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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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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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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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... [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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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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I don't keep a dog and bark myself.
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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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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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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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[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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It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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Men fight wars. Women win them.
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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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There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.
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