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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.

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
Eye
Beware
Soul
Organs
Wells
Visuals
Well
Visual
Avoid
Regard
Whose
Honest
Inlet

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