Ever the same.

Elizabeth I · Semper eadem, her motto

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Elizabeth I

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man!

Elizabeth I · On her deathbed, to Robert Cecil

I would not open windows into men's souls.

Attributed to Elizabeth I · ??.

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Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

Marcus Garvey · The source reads: “Black men, you were once great; you will be great again. Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.” · Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (1923), ch. 4

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanac. July

Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?

Anthony Trollope · Phineas Finn (1869), ch. 47

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“Ever the same.”

“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”

“Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man!”

“I would not open windows into men's souls.”

“Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?”