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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

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
Purity
Moral
True
Persons
Person
Godliness
Morals

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