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... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.
Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
Queen of England Elisabeth I
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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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 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 do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
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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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My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.
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The end crowneth the work.
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I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.
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Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.
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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
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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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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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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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The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.
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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.
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There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
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