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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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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
Writer
Richmond
New Hampshire
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Page
Otherwise
Pages
Habit
Pure
Faultless
Single
Ink
White
Mars

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Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.
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Hatred is self-punishment.
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The law of heaven is love.
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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