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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/man-being-not-only-a-religious-but-also-a-social-being-requires-for/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

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## More by Hosea Ballou

> [Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/purity-in-person-and-in-morals-is-true-godliness/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/envy-may-justly-be-called-the-gall-of-bitterness-and-bond-of-iniquity/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/be-circumspect-in-your-dealings-and-let-the-seed-you-plant-be-the/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/honest-and-courageous-people-have-very-little-to-say-about-either/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/the-cloudy-weather-melts-at-length-into-beauty-and-the-brightest/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/servility-is-disgusting-to-a-truly-noble-character-and-engenders-only/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [Obedience sums up our entire duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/obedience-sums-up-our-entire-duty/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/too-many-people-embrace-religion-from-the-same-motives-that-they-take/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/man-being-not-only-a-religious-but-also-a-social-being-requires-for/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/brevity-and-conciseness-are-the-parents-of-correction/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/there-is-one-court-whose-findings-are-incontrovertible-and-whose/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [“Kecurigaan selalu menjadi musuh kebahagiaan.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/kecurigaan-selalu-menjadi-musuh-kebahagiaan/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [Mystery and innocence are not akin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/mystery-and-innocence-are-not-akin/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/obedience-and-resignation-are-our-personal-offerings-upon-the-altar/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

> [Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hosea-ballou/liberality-should-be-tempered-with-judgment-not-with-profuseness/)

[Hosea Ballou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hosea-ballou/)

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