He cannot be thought worthy to rule and reign over others, who cannot rule and master his own affections and unreasonable appetites.
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James VI and I
First Stuart king of England and Scotland (1566-1625). Crowned James VI of Scotland at thirteen months old after his mother Mary's forced abdication, he was raised under regents and humanist tutors before assuming personal rule in 1583. In 1603 he succeeded the childless Elizabeth I as James I of England, uniting the two crowns in personal union and inaugurating the Jacobean era. He sponsored the King James Bible (1611), made peace with Spain, and authored treatises on the divine right of kings, yet his reign also produced the Gunpowder Plot, ruinous financial conflicts with Parliament, and damaging favouritism scandals that helped sow the seeds of his son Charles I's civil war.
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James VI and I's Other Quotes
Kings are justly called gods, for that they exercise a manner or resemblance of divine power upon earth.
The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth, for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called gods.
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
No bishop, no king.
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The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth, for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called gods.
-- James VI and I
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
-- James VI and I
If a lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
-- Henry VIII of England