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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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Queen Of England
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The Virgin Queen
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Good Queen Bess
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
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the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
Queen of England Elisabeth I
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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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Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
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The past cannot be cured.
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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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God forgive you, but I never can.
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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.
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Hang Irish harpers wherever found.
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I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.
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I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.
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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
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Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
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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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Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
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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.
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A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.
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They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst
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