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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.

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
Ignorance
Preaching
Struggle
Occupation
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Heavenly
Nature
Glorious
Truth
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Vivifying
Self
Minds
Inquiring
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Blue
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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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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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