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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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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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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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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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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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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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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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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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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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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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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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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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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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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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Hatred is self-punishment.
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The law of heaven is love.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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