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I would not open windows into men's souls.

Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.
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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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Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst
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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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To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
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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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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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Men fight wars. Women win them.
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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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Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
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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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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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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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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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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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[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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