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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

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
Denunciation
Reproof
Potent
Silent
Influence
Example
Good

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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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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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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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Error is always more busy than truth.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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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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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.
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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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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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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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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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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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