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  • When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger. -- Coco Chanel
  • Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. -- Blaise Pascal
  • When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. -- David Brin
  • There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. -- Sophie Swetchine
  • Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. -- Karl Kraus
  • As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. -- Diogenes
  • Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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  • What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth. -- Brigham Young
  • Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives. -- Spencer W. Kimball
  • I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ. -- Brigham Young
  • I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings. -- Heber J. Grant
  • Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does. -- Heber J. Grant
  • Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test -- Brigham Young
  • Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bears His name. He stands at its head and directs it through His chosen prophets. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest. -- Clayton M. Christensen
  • No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves -- Heber J. Grant
  • The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest. -- Clayton M. Christensen
  • President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is "the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives." -- Dallin H. Oaks
  • If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people. -- George Q. Cannon
  • The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority. -- Bruce R. McConkie
  • How grateful I am That the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints has from its beginnings stood strongly against racism in any of its malignant manifestations -- Alexander B. Morrison
  • We are the nation's watchmen, no other people collectively love the Constitution and honor it and hold it as a divinely inspired document as do the Latter-day Saints. -- Vaughn J Featherstone
  • Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord! -- Boyd K. Packer
  • Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every Latter-day Saint to cultivate a spirit of gratitude. -- Lorenzo Snow
  • 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. -- Heber J. Grant
  • When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you... -- Lorenzo Snow
  • To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth. -- John Andreas Widtsoe
  • The Latter-day Saint woman who follows Christ is a true Christian in the very best sense of the word. She is a woman of faith who trusts God and is confident and fearless. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by confirmation, by the laying on of hands by those having priesthood authority. -- James E. Faust
  • There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her. -- Lorenzo Snow
  • Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and neglecting that which could give spiritual and intellectual unity to his whole life. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • A Mormon knows that the promises of God are true, and He said that all will be tried; realizing these things the Latter-day Saints will acknowledge their Maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations. -- Heber J. Grant
  • In the midst of all this turmoil and destruction, the Latter-day Saints should dwell in peace and safety. This they may do if they will be honest with themselves, with their fellowmen, and with their God. -- Joseph Fielding Smith
  • I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us. -- Wilford Woodruff
  • When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.' -- Elizabeth Pena
  • But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days. -- Jimmy Page
  • In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one takes the place to which one is duly called, which place one neither seeks nor declines. -- Howard W. Hunter
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  • There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world. -- Heber J. Grant
  • Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter. -- Martin Heidegger
  • Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. -- Hosea Ballou
  • Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. -- Alexandre Dumas
  • Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. -- Democritus
  • Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. -- Fredrik Bajer
  • Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884. -- Calamity Jane
  • There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter. -- Duke Ellington
  • The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. -- Alfred A. Montapert
  • Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. -- Horace Mann
  • We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. -- Boris Spassky
  • The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. -- Neal Stephenson
  • The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. -- Joseph Addison
  • Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives. -- Billy Graham
  • The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. -- H. L. Mencken
  • Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. -- Albert Einstein
  • We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former. -- James Madison
  • You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment. -- Brian Eno
  • If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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  • Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being. -- Martin Heidegger
  • We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom. -- Alfred Kastler
  • Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. -- Hans Hofmann
  • All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will. -- Alexander Herzen
  • Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection? -- B. F. Skinner
  • I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it. -- Kyle Chandler
  • Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. -- Jane Austen
  • I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable! -- Sam Neill
  • There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp. -- Mark Zuckerberg
  • I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling. -- Graeme Base
  • The latter end of joy is woe. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration -- Helmut Schmid
  • You can be fearful or fearless...I chose the latter -- Robin Roberts
  • Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped. -- Arthur C. Clarke
  • Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days. -- T. D. Jakes
  • In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. -- Rex Stout
  • A cis-immunologist will sometimes speak to a trans-immunologist; but the latter rarely answers. -- Niels Kaj Jerne
  • Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter. -- James Dyson
  • It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. -- Henri Poincare
  • If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter. -- Rene Thom
  • If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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  • Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher. -- Eleanora Duse
  • I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. -- Mark Haddon
  • Power is different from glory for former, in the long run, leads to the latter. -- Junaid e Mustafa
  • Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
  • In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science. -- James Russell Lowell
  • Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century. -- C.P. Snow
  • There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. -- Hippocrates
  • An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. -- Hippocrates
  • People can destroy people; People can also decorate. The former are misleaders; the latter are leaders. -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine -- Hosea Ballou
  • I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter. -- Jim Carrey
  • The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter. -- George Eliot
  • Stubborness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own. -- John Wooden
  • In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it. -- Jared Diamond
  • For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter. -- Horace Mann
  • Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long. -- James Thurber
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