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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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Theory
Practice
Whatever
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The law of heaven is love.
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The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.
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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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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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Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.
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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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You cannot judge by outward appearances the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.
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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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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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Obedience sums up our entire duty.
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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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Self-respect is the best of all.
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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