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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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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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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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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
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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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It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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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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Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.
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Hatred is self-punishment.
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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