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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
Author
Theologian
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Richmond
New Hampshire
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Beauty
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Obedience sums up our entire duty.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
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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 eye is inlet to the soul.
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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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Hatred is self-punishment.
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Experience is retrospect knowledge.
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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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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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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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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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