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Obedience sums up our entire duty.

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
Entire
Duty
Sums
Obedience

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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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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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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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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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