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Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of "Mormonism"; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers.

— Joseph Smith Jr.

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One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge.

Truth is "Mormonism." God is the author of it.

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
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Ere I was old!

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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