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Now, we shall see the beginning of a great tragedy.
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My God, have mercy on my soul and on my poor people.
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One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere.
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I will say no more, than that I will act as I shall answer hereafter to God and to man.
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They stormed Oudewater, and delivered it over to all imaginable cruelties, sparing neither sex nor age.
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This mercy will be your ruin; you will be at the bridge across which the Spaniards will enter this land.
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I am resolved, to go and plant myself in Holland or in Zeeland, and there await the issue which it shall please Him to ordain.
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I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.
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In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe... to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
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Born:
April 24, 1533
Died:
July 10, 1584
(aged 51)
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