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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
Example
Good
Denunciation
Reproof
Potent
Silent
Influence

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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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Obedience sums up our entire duty.
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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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If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury, but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good. Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.
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How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
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It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.
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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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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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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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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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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
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Experience is retrospect knowledge.
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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.
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The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
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