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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
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Scriptures
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How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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Error is always more busy than truth.
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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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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of 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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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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Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
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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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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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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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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers the only password is prayer.
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The law of heaven is love.
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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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Hatred is self-punishment.
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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