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Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue...You must enlarge your soul towards each other.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Joseph Smith, Jr.
Age: 38 †
Born: 1805
Born: December 23
Died: 1844
Died: June 27
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When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.
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Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.
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A question may be asked, 'Will mothers have their children in eternity?' Yes! Yes! Mothers, you shall have your children.
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I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.
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There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.
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