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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Hosea Ballou
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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
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Richmond
New Hampshire
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If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury, but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good. Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.
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Error is always more busy than truth.
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers the only password is prayer.
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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.
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It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
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Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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Obedience sums up our entire duty.
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The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.
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The law of heaven is love.
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I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
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