Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
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