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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
Potent
Silent
Influence
Example
Good
Denunciation
Reproof

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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers the only password is prayer.
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How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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Hatred is self-punishment.
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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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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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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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Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
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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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Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty and, indeed, it is a sore affliction but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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Self-respect is the best of 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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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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With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.
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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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