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• My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

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  Lord, Duty, Mankind

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.111

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• No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are

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  Men, Kingdoms, Juniors

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• When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

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  Fighting, Enemy, Battle

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.325

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• If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity. I will prove by my works whether I can mete out justice to such persons, or not. I would consider it just as much my duty to do that, as to baptize a man for the remission of his sins.

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  Men, Justice, Suffering

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• The best remedy for anger is delay.

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  Anger, Delay, Remedy

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• Every day is judgment day-use it.

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  Use, Judgment, Judgment Day

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• Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase the faith of the holy Gospel, in charity, patience, and good works, that we may grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is spoken and prophesied of and written about.

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  Men, Mind, Relaxation

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• If the Latter-day Saints will walk up to their privileges, and exercise faith in the name of Jesus Christ, and live in the enjoyment of the fullness of the Holy Ghost constantly day by day, there is nothing on the face of the earth that they could ask for, that would not be given to them. The Lord is waiting to be very gracious unto this people, and to pour out upon them riches, honor, glory, and power, even that they may possess all things according to the promises He has made through His apostles and prophets.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Exercise, Names

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• There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

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  Wisdom, Knowledge, Light

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• My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.

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  Tired, Exercise, Mind

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• We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in consequence of their transgressions a curse has been inflicted upon them - in the darkness of their skins. We will have intermarriages with them, they marrying our young women, and we taking their young squaws to wife. By these means it is the will of the Lord that the curse of their color shall be removed and they restored to their pristine beauty.

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  Native American, Mean, Color

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• If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.

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  Fall, Wish, Bread

  Brigham Young (1980). “The Journal of Brigham: Brigham Young's Own Story in His Own Words”, p.69, Cedar Fort

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• True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

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  Motivational, Freedom, Independence

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• Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!

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  Sweet, Children, Teaching

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• I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.

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  Beautiful, Sweet, Rain

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.222

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• Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.

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  Exercise, Long, Care

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• How shall we know that we obey [God]? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is by the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord witnessing unto our spirit that we are His, that we love Him, and that He loves us. It is by the spirit of revelation we know this.

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  Inspiration, Spirit, Lord

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• Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

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  Thinking, Silence, May

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• 'Do you think that we shall ever be admitted as a State into the Union without denying the principle of polygamy?' If we are not admitted until then, we shall never be admitted.

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  Thinking, Principles, Unions

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.269

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• I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.

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  Thinking, Joseph Smith, Prophet

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• There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.

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  Heaven, Hell, Music Is

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• We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

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  Love Is, Men, Gold

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• Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

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  Pyramids, Serious, Pursuit

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• I expect, if I am faithful with yourselves, that I shall see the time with yourselves that we shall know how to prepare to organize an earth like this - know how to people that earth, how to redeem it, how to sanctify it, and how to glorify it, with those who live upon it who will hearken to our counsels. The Father and the Son have attained to this point already; I am on the way and so are you, and every faithful servant of God.

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  Father, Son, Servant Of God

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• To be damned is to be banished from, or be deprived of living in the presence of the Father and the Son. Who will live with him? They [who] will come up and inherit the highest glory that is prepared for the faithful.

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  Father, Son, Faithful

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.271

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