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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
Unkind
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Kindness
Nothing
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Unkindness

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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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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.
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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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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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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True repentance always involves reform.
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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
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Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.
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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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