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Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.
Approximate author period: c. 1514 AD · renaissance
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- Martin Luther
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- Approximate author period: c. 1514 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1483–1546)
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Luther. · page_134
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