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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!

Joan of Arc

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Joan of Arc
Age: 19 †
Born: 1412
Born: January 6
Died: 1431
Died: May 30
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Military Personnel
Saint
Domrémy
The Maid of Orléans
Jeanne d'Arc
La Pucelle d'Orléans
Saint Joan of Arc
Jeanne d’ Arc
Sainte Jeanne d’Arc
Jeanne d’Arc
The Maid of Orleans
Jehanne d'Arc
Maid of Orleans
La Pucelle
Must
Beside
Thing
Condition
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Tomorrow
Conditions
Lord
Poor
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Mother

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What concerns this dress is a small thing - less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world. I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
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I fear nothing for God is with me!
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... since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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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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You say that you are my judge I do not know if you are but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
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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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Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
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I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
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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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How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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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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The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
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In God's name let us go on bravely.
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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. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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Help yourself and God will help you
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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, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.
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