I learned early that sometimes you have to dig through garbage to get anywhere.


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Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
ELIZABETH I
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
ELIZABETH I
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an...
ELIZABETH I
If we still advise we shall never do.
ELIZABETH I
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
ELIZABETH I
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily ...
ELIZABETH I
The word must is not to be used to princes.
ELIZABETH I
The end crowneth the work.
ELIZABETH I
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
ELIZABETH I
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
ELIZABETH I
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at lea...
ELIZABETH I
God forgive you, but I never can.
ELIZABETH I
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that ...
ELIZABETH I
The past cannot be cured.
ELIZABETH I
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
ELIZABETH I
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
ELIZABETH I
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a pe...
ELIZABETH I
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to th...
ELIZABETH I
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
ELIZABETH I
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and o...
ELIZABETH I
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
ELIZABETH I
All my possessions for a moment of time.
ELIZABETH I
You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words.
EYDEN I.
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have ...
ELIZABETH I
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
ELIZABETH I
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dan...
ELIZABETH I
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
STANISLAUS I
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such s...
ELIZABETH I
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends ...
ELIZABETH I
(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)

"[W]hile we perceive ... th...
ELIZABETH I
[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., un...
ELIZABETH I
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having...
ELIZABETH I
To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it.
STANISLAS I
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.