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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
Events
Least
Common
Life
Heeded
Blessings
Blessing

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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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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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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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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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Obedience sums up our entire duty.
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There is no such thing as best in the world of individuals.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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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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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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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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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Experience is retrospect knowledge.
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A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.
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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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True repentance always involves reform.
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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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