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The things of God are of deep import and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.

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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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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Surely I have contemplated the things of God.
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If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after much endurance on our part, is to maintain and uphold the constitution and institutions of our country, and to protect an injured, innocent, and persecuted people against misrule and mob violence.
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Sometimes the Lord brings us low before he can lift us higher.
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The constitution expects every man to do his duty and when he fails the law urges him or should he do too much the same master rebukes him.
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I combat the errors of ages I meet the violence of mobs I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth and God is my 'right hand man'.
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Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were.
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The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man righteousness exalteth a nation for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.
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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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