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Rest content, and give heed to one that hath sorrowed in the bright lustre of a court, and gone heavily even on the best-seeming fair ground…I know it bringeth little comfort on earth; and he is, I reckon, no wise man that looketh this way to Heaven.
Sir Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
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Sir Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
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Born:
June 1, 1563
Died:
May 24, 1612
(aged 48)
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Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury was an English administrator and politician.
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