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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.

Hosea Ballou

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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
Writer
Richmond
New Hampshire
Grows
Bitterness
Gall
Called
Stock
Purge
May
Subtle
Iniquity
Soul
Envy
Justly
Nothing
Fruit
Acid
Love
Sin
Fluid
Divine
Fire
Bond

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