Brigham Young

The best remedy for anger is delay.

— Brigham Young

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

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Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

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Love the giver more than the gift.

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I am a firm believer in slavery.

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Learn to be good for something.

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The apostates think that everybody is wrong but themselves.

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

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It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

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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…

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The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.

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

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If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!

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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…

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I don't care whether the people believe me to be a prophet, seer, or revelator or not - I have been very…

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This is loving your neighbour as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary…

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Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and…

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Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the…

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“It is the duty of a Saint of God to gain all the influence he can on this earth, and to use…

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Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us…

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This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles…

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Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service…

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My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out…

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Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was…

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In the beginning, after this earth was prepared for man, the Lord commenced his work upon what is now called the American…

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To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness…

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The Scripture says that He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with His train; I do not know who they were,…

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I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in…

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I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of…

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Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the…

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The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present…

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“I have a word to say to my sisters. When I reflect upon the duties and responsibilities devolving upon our mothers and…

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“Now, remember, my brethren, those who go skating, buggy riding or on excursions on the Sabbath day—and there is a great deal…

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We believe we are entitled to the gift of the Holy Ghost in extent according to the discretion and wisdom of God…

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Now hear it, O inhabitants of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the garden…

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The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat…

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There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them;…

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“My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every…

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Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

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