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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

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
Unkindness
Unkind
Manner
Kindness
Nothing
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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
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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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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers the only password is prayer.
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True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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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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Envy may justly be called the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.
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Obedience sums up our entire duty.
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