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Widely and eagerly read, these piquant publications made Luther the awakener, the developer, and as Harnack declares, the spiritual center of the reformatory thought that was now rising to a crisis.

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Luther, Martin

Beyond his Limits.—When an artist wants to be more than an artist—for example, the moral awakener of his people—he at last falls in love, as a punishment, with a monster of moral substance.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

The attempt to become a good public speaker is a great awakener of all the mental faculties.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

For jealousy is the forerunner of love, and sometimes its awakener.

From A Roman Singer by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

He was kind-hearted, but to think of him as an awakener of love—Ah! love brought to her mind another.

From An I.D.B. in South Africa by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise