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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
Nothing
Needs
Unkindness
Unkind
Manner
Kindness

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With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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The law of heaven is love.
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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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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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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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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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How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
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True repentance always involves reform.
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There is no immunity from the consequences of sin punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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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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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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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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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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