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• There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.

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  Men, Calling, Earth

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• I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

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  Heart, Hands, Wife

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.247

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• To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.

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  Spiritual, Children, Growing Up

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”

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• It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

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  Evil, Doing Good, Dies

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• If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus.

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  Jesus, Lord, Disciple

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• For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent.

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  Race, Black, Abuse

  Journal of Discourses, Vol.10, p. 110, 1863.

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• I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

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  Law, Want, Masters

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.364

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• To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

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  Men, Mind Your Own Business, Duty

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.107

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• I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.

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  Catholic, Wicked, Church

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• It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

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  Fool, Enough, Young

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• If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves.

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  Gold, Walks, Streets

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• Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.

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  Jesus, Ghost, Christ

  Brigham Young (1977). “Journal of Discourses”, p.51, Рипол Классик

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• Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?

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  Brother, Love You, Men

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from him & given to another.

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  Taken, Men, Wife

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• The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

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  Tomorrow, Problem, Labor

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• Mend it, fix it, make do, or do without.

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• No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood

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  Blood, Priesthood, Particles

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• I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.

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  Children, Punishment, Parent

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• The time has been in Israel under the law of God, the celestial law, or that which pertains to the celestial law, for it is one of the laws of that kingdom where our Father dwells, that if a man was found guilty of adultery, he must have his blood shed, and that is near at hand. But now I say, in the name of the Lord, that if this people will sin no more, but faithfully live their religion, their sins will be forgiven them without taking life

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  Father, Men, Blood

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

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  Hair, Gold, Fields

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.219

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• The government of heaven, if wickedly administered, would become one of the worst governments upon the face of the earth. No matter how good a government is, unless it is administered by righteous men, an evil government will be made of it.

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  Men, Righteous Man, Evil

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• If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

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  Lying, Men, Names

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.275

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• You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there never was and never will be, who turn up their noses at the counsel that is given them from the First Presidency, but who, unless they repent of and refrain from such conduct will eventually go out of the Church and go to hell, every one of them

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  Men, Church, Firsts

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• I have known a great many men who have left this Church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but if their blood had been spilled, it would have been better for them. The wickedness and ignorance of the nations forbid this principle's being in full force, but the time will come when the law of God will be in full force.

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  Ignorance, Men, Blood

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.

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  Compassion, Doctrine, Charity

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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