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Self-respect is the best of all.

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
Respect
Best
Self

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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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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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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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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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