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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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Theologian
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Richmond
New Hampshire
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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There is no such thing as best in the world of individuals.
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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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It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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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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The law of heaven is love.
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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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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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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers the only password is prayer.
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How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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Hatred is self-punishment.
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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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The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.
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