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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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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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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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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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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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That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
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True repentance always involves reform.
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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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Error is always more busy than truth.
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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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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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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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