Elizabeth I Quotes

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• Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.
• I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.
• When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.
• There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
• I have no desire to make windows into mens souls.
• Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.
• 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…
• My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes…
• There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me
• Men fight wars. Women win them.
• Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that…
• I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
• The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
• I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
• 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…
• Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst
• It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
• 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…
• Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.
• Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

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