Hosea Ballou Quotes

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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

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To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

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O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

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A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.

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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

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Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

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It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent one upon 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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Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

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Energy, even like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

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There is one court whose "findings" are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

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