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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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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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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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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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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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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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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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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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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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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
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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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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
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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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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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