We admonish, we beseech our brothers and sisters, in the gospel of Jesus Christ, not only to honor themselves by a proper course of living, but also to honor and love and be charitable to their neighbors, every one of them.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith
In investigating the complaints of shippers against railroad companies they often rendered valuable services to those who had neither the means nor the inclination to prosecute their rights in the courts of law; but as they held that they could only pass upon individual charges, and did not have the power to revise the companies' tariffs, the companies were virtually in a position to become guilty of more extortions in one day than the commission could investigate in a year.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee
This charge our Lord brings against them here and elsewhere.
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice
His peculiar defects are, first of all, stinginess towards soldiers; then he makes large promises, and even when he means to keep his promise he is infinitely slow about it.” To the sketch of the Cardinal of Lorraine Brantome adds that he was, “as indeed he said, a coward by nature.”
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by François Guizot
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