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“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Inspirational #Summer #Rain
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“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Happiness #Happy #Real
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“Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Experience #Tangible #Theory
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“Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Honesty #People #Littles
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“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Charity #Divinity #Divine
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“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Gratitude #Spring #Heart
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“Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Biblical #Mountain #Energy
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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.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Life #Godly #Practice
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“Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Being Original #Pretension
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“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage....”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Truth #Cowardice #Falsehood
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“If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Gratitude #Children #Father
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“Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Friendship #Happiness #Enemy
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“Hatred is self-punishment.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Self #Punishment #Justice
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“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Disease #Illness #Retribution
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“The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Freedom #People #Important
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“Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Devil #Persecution
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“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Truth #Doubt #Curiosity
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“The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Experience #Add
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“No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Business #Pride #Men
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“Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#People #Benefits #Sin
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“True repentance always involves reform.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Reform #Repentance
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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.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Names #Use #Association
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“Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Keys #Moderation #Enjoyment
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“Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Adversity #Safe #Littles
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“Prosperity often presages adversity.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Adversity #Prosperity
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“As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Law #Honor #Remedy
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“A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Style #Chaste #Traits
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“Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Years #Tolerance
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“We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Scripture #Rules Of Life
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“Obedience sums up our entire duty.”
-- Hosea Ballou
#Obedience #Duty
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