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There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.

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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

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If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

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If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

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And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

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