This rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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"You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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"What a lovely thing a rose is! ... Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. ... It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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"What a lovely thing a rose is! ... Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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"Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same."

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"Happiness is possible even in the midst of darkness."

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"No one is beyond redemption."

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"You will … hear us declare with Moroni that hope is essential if we are to ‘receive [the] inheritance [God] hast prepared [for us]’ [Ether 12:32]. We want you to claim that inheritance as sons and daughters of a king. To do that, we must realize that hope is not just the message and manner of the naturally optimistic; it is the privilege of everyone who believes."

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"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

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"Light tomorrow with today."

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