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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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Lucid
Chaste
Traits
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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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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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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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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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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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The law of heaven is love.
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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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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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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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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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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There is no immunity from the consequences of sin punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
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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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How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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