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Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument that you can offer to the skeptic.

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Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.

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There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.

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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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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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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Hosea Ballou

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Born: April 30, 1771
Died: June 6, 1852 (aged 81)
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