“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 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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“If we still advise we shall never do.”
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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....”
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“Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.”
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“If we still advise we shall never do.”
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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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“Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.”
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“A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”
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“Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.”
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“Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.”
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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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“To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.”
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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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“The past cannot be cured.”
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“I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.”
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