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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
Good
Denunciation
Reproof
Potent
Silent
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Example

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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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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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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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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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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
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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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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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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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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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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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