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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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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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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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It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
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With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.
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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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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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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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Experience is retrospect knowledge.
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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
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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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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty and, indeed, it is a sore affliction but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.
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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
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Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
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