Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth's whole style of rule was pragmatic and free from preconceptions. It was not that she had no strategic aims, but they were broad and simple. God had entrusted her with three things: a realm to defend; a church to lead in the true way; and a people to protect, both against foreign enemies and against themselves.

David Loades, Elizabeth I
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The past can not be cured.

Elizabeth I
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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.

Elizabeth I
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In no issue of foreign policy could her prevarication and indecisiveness be said to have led to disastrous consequences for her country. On the international stage there was no better survivor. At home her achievement can only be judged with hindsight. A combination of good sense and longevity settled the church, and it was no fault of hers that confessional issues became so divisive forty years after her death. She gave her country pride, and set its commercial development on a course that was eventually to be spectacularly successful; for that she deserves more credit than she is usually given.

David Loades, Elizabeth I
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The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

Elizabeth I, Letters
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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.

Elizabeth I, Her Life in Letters
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

Elizabeth I
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God forgive you, but I never can.

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

Elizabeth I
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