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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
Writer
Richmond
New Hampshire
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Lucid
Chaste
Traits
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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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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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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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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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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 charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
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There is no such thing as best in the world of individuals.
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It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
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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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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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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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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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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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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
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