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“It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.”
― Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Volume 12

“When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.”
― Brigham Young

“If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.”
― Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Volume 9

“I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.”
― Brigham Young

“Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.”
― Brigham Young

“Parties in our Government have no better idea than to think the Republic stands all the firmer upon opposition; but I say that it is not so. A republican government consists in letting the people rule by their united voice, without a dissension,--in learning what is for the best, and unitedly doing it. That is true republicanism.”
― Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young: Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

“Instead of preparing to die, prepare to live in the midst of all the exaltations of the Gods”
― Brigham Young

“The man or woman who enjoys the spirit of our religion has no trials; but the man or woman who tries to live according to the gospel of the Son of God, and at the same times clings to the spirit of the world, has trials and sorrows acute and keen, and that too, continually. This is the deciding point, the dividing line. They who love and serve God with all their hearts rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing, and in everything give thanks; but they who try to serve God and still cling to the spirit of the world have got on two yokes-- the yoke of Jesus and the yoke of the devil, and they will have plenty to do. They will have a warfare inside and outside, and the labor will be very galling, for they are directly in opposition one to the other.”
― Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Volume 16