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Error is always more busy than truth.

Hosea Ballou

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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
Writer
Richmond
New Hampshire
Error
Errors
Busy
Truth
Always

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The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.
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How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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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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A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.
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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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There is no such thing as best in the world of individuals.
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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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How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
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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 act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
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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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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
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Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
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That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
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You cannot judge by outward appearances the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.
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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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