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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.

Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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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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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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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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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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[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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He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
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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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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart
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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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I don't keep a dog and bark myself.
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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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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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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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
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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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[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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No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.
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