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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
Author
Theologian
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Richmond
New Hampshire
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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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How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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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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It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.
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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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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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Error is always more busy than truth.
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Envy may justly be called the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.
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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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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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Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty and, indeed, it is a sore affliction but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.
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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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True repentance always involves reform.
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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.
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Experience is retrospect knowledge.
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Obedience sums up our entire duty.
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