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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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the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
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I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
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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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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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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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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
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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 don't keep a dog and bark myself.
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I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst
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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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The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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A good face is the best letter of recommendation.
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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 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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The end crowneth the work.
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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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