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Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Hosea Ballou

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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
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Richmond
New Hampshire
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Wedlock
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