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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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
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The Virgin Queen
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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
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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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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.
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.
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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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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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A good face is the best letter of recommendation.
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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
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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.
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