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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
Writer
Richmond
New Hampshire
Rules
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Life
Scriptures
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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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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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Experience is retrospect knowledge.
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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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The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
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I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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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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You cannot judge by outward appearances the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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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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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
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