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" I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing. "

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" When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to be at least forty miles away while you are doing it.' "

" To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people. "

" My wife Lucy was very sick for nearly three years prior to her death. At one time, I was in the hospital with her for six months. "

" When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off. "

" With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and... with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along. "

" I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet. "

" I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors. "

" As a boy, without experience, never having spoken in public in my life, for any length of time, never ten minutes at once, I was called to preside over a stake of Zion. "

" The Book of Mormon is in absolute harmony from start to finish with other sacred scriptures. There is not a doctrine taught in it that does not harmonize with the teachings of Jesus Christ. "

" I know of nothing that brings greater joy to the human heart than laboring at home or abroad for the salvation of the souls of men. I know of nothing which gives us a greater love of all that is good, than teaching this Gospel of Jesus Christ. "

" If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty. "

" I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me. "

" There is no better example of an older brother's love than that exhibited in the life of Hyrum Smith for the Prophet Joseph Smith. "

" When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns. "

" There is no such thing as standing still. "

" As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world. "

" Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully. "

" Every living soul among the Latter-day Saints that fasts two meals once a month will be benefited spiritually and be built up in the faith of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ - benefited spiritually in a wonderful way - and sufficient means will be in the hands of the bishops to take care of all the poor. "

" Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go. "

" It is a remarkable fact that we can never read or hear of the labors which our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ performed, without taking pleasure in it, while, on the other hand, there is nothing so interesting in the life and history of any other individual but what by hearing or reading it time and time again we become tired of it. "

" If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work. "

" Many men say: 'If I could only see an angel, if I could only hear an angel proclaim something, that would cause me to be faithful all the days of my life!' "

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" Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working. "

" Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does. "

" I ask every man and woman occupying a place of responsibility whose duty it is to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to live it and keep the commandments of God, so that their example will teach it. "

" I appeal to the Latter-day Saints to be honest with the Lord, and I promise them that peace, prosperity and financial success will attend those who are honest with our Heavenly Father. "

" What I count as real prosperity... is the growth in a knowledge of God, and in a testimony, and in the power to live the gospel and to inspire our families to do the same. That is prosperity of the truest kind. "

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