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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
Politician
Queen Of England
Greenwich Palace
The Virgin Queen
Gloriana
Good Queen Bess
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elizabeth I
the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
Queen of England Elisabeth I
Queen of England Bess
Strong
Two
May
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Strings
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Straight
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Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.
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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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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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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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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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The word must is not to be used to princes.
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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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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.
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