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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
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Theologian
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Richmond
New Hampshire
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Experience
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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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 of his social feelings.
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Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.
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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
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Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
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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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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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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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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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Envy may justly be called the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.
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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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