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Martin Luther: The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it…

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.

In today’s wordsThe human heart is like a millstone: put wheat under it and it turns and grinds and crushes the wheat to flour; put nothing under it and it still grinds, but then it grinds and wears away itself.

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From the book Table Talk. Of Temptation and, as quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (compiled by Anna L. Ward, 1889)

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