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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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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.
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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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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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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.
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True repentance always involves reform.
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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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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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You cannot judge by outward appearances the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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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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Self-respect is the best of all.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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