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I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

Ezra Taft Benson

Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Humble Humility Mean
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
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Bless Trial Wickedness
Gods’ payment is the best payment.
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Best God Payment
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.
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Magazine Record Television
Take care of yourselves physically. Guard your health carefully. It is one of our greatest blessings. I especially encourage some type of exercise program so you can stay physically fit and physically capable in proportion to the demands on your body.
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Blessing Body Exercise
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
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Character Foundation Virtue
“On my honor” – what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout’s Oath.
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Boy Character Honor Summation
The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.
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Country Movement People Right
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.
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Deal Generosity Goal
The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive…It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.
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Children Grow Today
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
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Heart Joy Want
The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
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Effort Lord Please Tiny
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
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Desire Lord Spiritual
One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?
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Funny Marriage Thinking Wish
When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.
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Father Thinking Year
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

First Jesus Meaningful

I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

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