Mary Boleyn/sister%e2%80%99s Rise To Power

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    Then Mary said, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 1:38.

    Toll on, thou passing bell;
    Ring out my doleful knell;
    —George Boleyn (d. 1536)

    I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
    Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923)

    The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)