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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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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
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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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The law of heaven is love.
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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty and, indeed, it is a sore affliction but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.
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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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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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There is no such thing as best in the world of individuals.
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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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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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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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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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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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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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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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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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