It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days.
JOAN OF ARC
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
More Joan of Arc Quotes
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It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days.
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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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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.
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Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.
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I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year.
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If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin.
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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
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In God’s name let us go on bravely.
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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.
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… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
JOAN OF ARC