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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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Beauty
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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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