Hosea Ballou
Hosea Ballou
Hosea Ballouwas an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. He has been called one of the fathers of American Universalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth30 April 1771
CountryUnited States of America
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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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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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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Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction....
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
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There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.
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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.