As Grant Hardy once noted wryly, if the Book of Mormon was only intended as an evidence that Joseph Smith could translate—a pamphlet would have sufficed. The almost 600 pages of the original edition, in actual fact, were a vast resource
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“Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
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