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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Hosea Ballou

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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
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Richmond
New Hampshire
Life
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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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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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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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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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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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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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Hatred is self-punishment.
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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
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It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.
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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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There is no immunity from the consequences of sin punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
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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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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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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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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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