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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
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Richmond
New Hampshire
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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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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
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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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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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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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Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers the only password is prayer.
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You cannot judge by outward appearances the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
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It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
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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 a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.
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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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I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
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How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
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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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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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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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