Karl G. Maeser quotes:
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I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.
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There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.
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The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
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Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.
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Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.
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Make the man within your living ideal.
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School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.
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There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.
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Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
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A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
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All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.
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He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
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I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!
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Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.
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Say to your soul, 'Let no unclean thing enter here.'