"Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends."
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"Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst"
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"Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects."
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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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"I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart"
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"The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude."
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"[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!"
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"Affection! Affection is false."
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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 would not open windows into men's souls."
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"Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company."
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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."
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"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 for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm."
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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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"They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink."
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"The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow."
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"A good face is the best letter of recommendation."
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"And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too."
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"Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like."
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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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