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Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.
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 Elisabetta I
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There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
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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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Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
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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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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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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 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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No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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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 would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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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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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
Elizabeth I
I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.
Elizabeth I
The past cannot be cured.
Elizabeth I
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
Elizabeth I
My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.
Elizabeth I
[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
Elizabeth I
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
Elizabeth I
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
