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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
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Denunciation
Reproof
Potent
Silent
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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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Hatred is self-punishment.
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Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
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How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.
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