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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Hosea Ballou

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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
Writer
Richmond
New Hampshire
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Silent
Influence
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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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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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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Hatred is self-punishment.
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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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