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Elizabeth I

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    A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

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    A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

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    All my possessions for a moment of time.

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    Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

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    A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

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    Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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    Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it.

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    As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.

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    As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed 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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    A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

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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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    Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

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    Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

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    Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

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    Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

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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.

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    Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

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    Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

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    For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.

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    God forgive you, but I never can.

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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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    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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    Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

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    Have a care over my people. You have my people--do you that which I ought to do. They are my people.... See unto them--see unto them, for they are my charge.... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am.

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    He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

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    I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.

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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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    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 cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

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    I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

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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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    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. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.

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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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    I don't keep a dog and bark myself.

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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 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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    If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

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    If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

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    If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.

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    If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

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    I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. 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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    I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

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    I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

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    I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

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    I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.

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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 know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

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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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    I observe and remain silent.

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    I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.