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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
Writer
Richmond
New Hampshire
Style
Indicative
Lucid
Chaste
Traits
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Personal

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It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.
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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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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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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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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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Self-respect is the best of all.
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The law of heaven is love.
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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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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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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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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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You cannot judge by outward appearances the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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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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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.
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