Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
JOAN OF ARCBut 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!
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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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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I die for speaking the language of the angels.
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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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The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
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I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
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Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body,
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Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition.
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I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
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I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
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I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
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It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.
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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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As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
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