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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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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
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the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
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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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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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If we still advise we shall never do.
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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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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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I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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Men fight wars. Women win them.
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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.
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My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
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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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