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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
Experience
Retrospect
Knowledge

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
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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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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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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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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
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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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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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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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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.
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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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