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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
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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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The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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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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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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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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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
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Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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There is no such thing as best in the world of individuals.
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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