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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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the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
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It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
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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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Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
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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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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
Elizabeth I
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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Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
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It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.
Elizabeth I
Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
Elizabeth I
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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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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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.
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I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.
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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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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.
Elizabeth I
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
Elizabeth I
I would not open windows into men's souls.
Elizabeth I
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 choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Elizabeth I
