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The law of heaven is love.

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
Law
Heaven
Love

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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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Hatred is self-punishment.
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It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
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Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.
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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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The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.
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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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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.
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