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Catherine of Aragon said,“None get to God but through trouble.
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Rob Bell (Drops Like Stars: A Few Thoughts on Creativity and Suffering)
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Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?
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Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1))
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Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she says sweetly, she will become a nun: if the king will become a monk.
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Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1))
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Yet every time I saw Arthur my heart sank.
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Carolly Erickson (The Spanish Queen: A Novel of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon)
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I believe what I choose. I am not as simple as I seem. Now go!
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Alison Weir (Catherine d'Aragon: Les Reines maudites, T1)
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Well, you know the form,’ Bedingfield says. ‘She lives in that room and has her ladies – those ones – cook for her over the fire. You knock and go in, and if you call her Lady Katherine she kicks you out, and if you call her Your Highness she lets you stay. So I call her nothing. You, I call her. As if she were a girl that scrubs the steps.
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Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2))
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England's King Henry VIII initially opposed Luther, but he rejected Catholicism in 1534 after the pope refused to allow him to divorce his wife, Catherine ofAragon.
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David S. Kidder (The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Culture (The Intellectual Devotional Series))
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The king swore and broke his golden walking stick over his knee when he heard this news, especially as it was rumored that the concubine miscarried after eating a surfeit of comfits made with green ginger.
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Carolly Erickson (The Spanish Queen: A Novel of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon)
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For with this dispensation in place, and the marriage blessed by the pope, what could possibly go wrong?
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Kirstin Downey (Isabella: The Warrior Queen)