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Joan of Arc
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“Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.”
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“[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.”
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“Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.”
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“... I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare ...”
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“... since God commanded me to go, I must do it.”
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“Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition. But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!”
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“I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year. Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orléans.”
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“I am not afraid ... I was born to do this.”
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“Act, and God will act.”
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“Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.”
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“[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.”
Joan of Arc, French hero, saint
(1412 - 1431)