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If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

Rhyming response written on a windowpane beneath Sir Walter Raleigh's writing: "Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall." As quoted in The History of the Worthies of England - 1662 by Thomas Fuller.


God may forgive you, but I never can.

To the Countess of Nottingham. Quoted in The History of England Under the House of Tudor - 1759 by David Hume.


Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be, Quoth Elizabeth prisoner.

Written with a diamond on her window at Woodstock - 1555, published in Acts and Monuments - 1563 by John Foxe.


This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

Quote when she was told she was Queen - 17th November, 1558.


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