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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
Author
Theologian
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Richmond
New Hampshire
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Men
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You cannot judge by outward appearances the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.
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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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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.
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It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
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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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Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.
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Envy may justly be called the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.
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True repentance always involves reform.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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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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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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