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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
Needs
Unkindness
Unkind
Manner
Kindness
Nothing

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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
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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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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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If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury, but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good. Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.
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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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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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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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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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You cannot judge by outward appearances the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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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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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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Hatred is self-punishment.
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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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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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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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True repentance always involves reform.
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It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.
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