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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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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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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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