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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.

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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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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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The law of heaven is love.
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Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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