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Spencer W. Kimball
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: March 28
Died: 1985
Died: November 5
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.
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O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.
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I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.
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There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.
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Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.
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Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding...And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.
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No true Latter-Day Saint, while physically or emotionally able will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family's well-being to someone else. So long as he can, under the inspiration of the Lord and with his own labors, he will supply himself and his family with the spiritual and temporal necessities of life.
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We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.
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We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.
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We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.
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One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.
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Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.
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Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only exist he must do, not merely be he must grow, not just vegetate.
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You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life. There may be a flash of illumination here and a story of faithfulness there you should truthfully record your real self and not what other people may see in you.
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It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!
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Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.
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Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.
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It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That's our motto.
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How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves.
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The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.
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