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There is no such thing as best in the world of individuals.

Hosea Ballou

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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
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Theologian
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Richmond
New Hampshire
World
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Individual
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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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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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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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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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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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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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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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Hatred is self-punishment.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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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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Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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