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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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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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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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Self-respect is the best of all.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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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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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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Error is always more busy than truth.
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Hatred is self-punishment.
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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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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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Experience is retrospect knowledge.
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