Hosea Ballou Short Quotes

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Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

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No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.

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I will be a slave to no habit; therefore farewell tobacco.

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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

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None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

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Tears of joy, like summer raindrops, are pierced by sunbeams.

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Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.

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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.

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Theories are very thin and unsubstantial: experience only is tangible.

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Embark in no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

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Thy attributes, how endearing! how parental! all loving, all forgiving.

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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blameable.

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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

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

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It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

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It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

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It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.

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

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

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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

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It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

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Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

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

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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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

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