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A good face is the best letter of recommendation. - [Face] All my possessions for a moment of time. - her last words [Death] As for my own part, I care not for death; for all men are mortal, and though I be a mortal, yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat, I were able to live in any place in Christendom. - to a committee of Parliament, found in Chamberlain's "Sayings of Queen Elizabeth" [Death : History] Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul. - [Chastity] Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. - [Cowards] For me it will be enough that a marble stone should declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. - [Virgins] I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory. - [Quotations] It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting. - [Jesting] Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay. - preserved by George Putnam in his "Art of Poesie", bk. III, "Of Ornament" [Fortune] O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit! - [Woe] The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow. - about Mary Queen of Scots [Argument] The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage. - [Freedom] They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink. - [Worldliness] 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it. - in Clark's "Ecclesiastical History--Life of Queen Elizabeth", p. 94 (edition 1675) [Doctrine] As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes. - Godly Meditacyon of the Christian Sowle [Opinion] . . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember that who seaketh two strings to one bowe, he may shute strong but never strait. - Letter X, to James VI [Prudence] If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. - Worthies of England (vol. I, p. 419), by Thomas Fuller, (written on window pane under words written by Raleigh) [Fear : Ambition : Proverbs]
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