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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
Retrospect
Knowledge
Experience

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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
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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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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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Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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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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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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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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