Elizabeth I Quotes
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
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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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Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
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The end crowneth the work.
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There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
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Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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All my possessions for a moment of time.
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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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The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.