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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.


William Howard Taft

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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man
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EZRA TAFT BENSON If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships w...
EZRA TAFT BENSON If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their b...
EZRA TAFT BENSON To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON God will not be mocked.
EZRA TAFT BENSON There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.
EZRA TAFT BENSON God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are per...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abid...
EZRA TAFT BENSON A young man who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abidin...
EZRA TAFT BENSON We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming th...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity m...
EZRA TAFT BENSON You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.
EZRA TAFT BENSON The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. Al...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agre...
EZRA TAFT BENSON True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of thei...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The tenth plank in Karl Marx's Manifesto for destroying our kind of civilization advocated the estab...
EZRA TAFT BENSON No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you o...
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