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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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Elizabeth I
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the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
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I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
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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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If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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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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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
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... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.
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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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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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The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.
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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
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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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