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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
Hosea Ballou
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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
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Richmond
New Hampshire
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You cannot judge by outward appearances the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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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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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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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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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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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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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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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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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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There is no immunity from the consequences of sin punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
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With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.
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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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Obedience sums up our entire duty.
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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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