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" A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. "
Innocent
Nothing
Clear
" A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. "
Late
Fool
Past
" All my possessions for a moment of time. "
Possessions
Time
Moment
" A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. "
Harm
Ambitious
Hand
" Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. "
Ignorant
Gold
Brass
" Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. "
You
Tell
Silence
" Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. "
Small
Destruction
Fear
" God forgive you, but I never can. "
Forgive
Forgiveness
Never
" 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. "
Crown
Us
Soldiers
" He who placed me in this seat will keep me here. "
Seat
Who
Keep
" I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive. "
Am
Still
I Am
" 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. "
God
Queen
Thankful
" I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. "
Love
Woman
Queen
" I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over! "
Over
Left
Find
" If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. "
Climb
Thy
Thee
" If we still advise we shall never do. "
Still
Advise
Shall
" I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything. "
Man
Afraid
Am
" 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. "
Heart
Woman
Weak
" I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception. "
Thought
Deception
God
" I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children. "
Believe
Parents
Children
" It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. "
Virtue
Those
Sex
" I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. "
Alone
Married
Queen
" I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown. "
Suffer
Anything
Crown
" Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. "
War
States
Dangers
" 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. "
Man
Little
Used
" My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me. "
Death
Wish
Welcome
" One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without. "
Man
Head
Worth
" The end crowneth the work. "
Work
End
" The past cannot be cured. "
Cured
Cannot
Time
" 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. "
Country
Possible
Nothing
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