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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
Love
Law
Heaven

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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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True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.
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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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How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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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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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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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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A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.
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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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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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True repentance always involves reform.
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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Experience is retrospect knowledge.
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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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