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But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.
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I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.
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But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…
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I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.
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Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.
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No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
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In old age... we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
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And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.
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Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.
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Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!
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The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest - who trod it into being first of all? Man, a human being, the first that came here. There was no path before he came.
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Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work
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But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
August 4, 1859
Died:
February 19, 1952
(aged 92)
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