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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

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
Heeded
Blessings
Blessing
Events
Least
Common
Life

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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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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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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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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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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
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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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Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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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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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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You cannot judge by outward appearances the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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