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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
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Theologian
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Richmond
New Hampshire
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The law of heaven is love.
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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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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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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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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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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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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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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty and, indeed, it is a sore affliction but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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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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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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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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True repentance always involves reform.
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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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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