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

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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Tangible
Theories
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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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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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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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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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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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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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There is no immunity from the consequences of sin punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
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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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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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Obedience sums up our entire duty.
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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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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.
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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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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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