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My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.
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
Queen of England Elisabeth I
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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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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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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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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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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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My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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I would not open windows into men's souls.
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It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
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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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Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
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Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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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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Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
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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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[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
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He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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I don't keep a dog and bark myself.
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