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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
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Theologian
Writer
Richmond
New Hampshire
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Lucid
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The law of heaven is love.
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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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There is no such thing as best in the world of individuals.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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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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Error is always more busy than truth.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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Obedience sums up our entire duty.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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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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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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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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Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.
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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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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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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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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
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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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