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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
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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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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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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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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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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.
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I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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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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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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If we still advise we shall never do.
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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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we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.
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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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Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.
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I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.
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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst
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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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