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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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[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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The end crowneth the work.
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Affection! Affection is false.
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There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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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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Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
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Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
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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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A good face is the best letter of recommendation.
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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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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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Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
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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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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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No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.
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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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He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
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For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.
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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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