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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
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
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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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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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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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.
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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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The end crowneth the work.
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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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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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Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
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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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Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
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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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Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.
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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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Affection! Affection is false.
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Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
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