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Experience is retrospect knowledge.

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
Experience
Retrospect
Knowledge

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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
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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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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
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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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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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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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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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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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Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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The law of heaven is love.
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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