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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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Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
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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 am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.
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The end crowneth the work.
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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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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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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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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 have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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The word must is not to be used to princes.
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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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A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.
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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 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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[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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