Karl G. Maeser quotes
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“Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.”
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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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“Make the wise man within you your living ideal.”
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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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“Be yourself, but always your better self.”
-- Karl G. MaeserSource : Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly. The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Volume 70, 1908.
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“Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.”
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“Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.”
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“There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.”
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“Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.”
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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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“I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.”
-- Karl G. MaeserSource : Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly. The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Volume 70, 1908.
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“He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.”
-- Karl G. MaeserSource : Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly. The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Volume 70, 1908.
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“Say to your soul, 'Let no unclean thing enter here.'”
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“All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.”
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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!”
-- Karl G. MaeserSource : "The Circle of Honor" by David Brooksby, www.ldsbc.edu. June 05, 2012.
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“Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.”
-- Karl G. Maeser
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