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Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.

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Judgment, Should, Liberality

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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

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Moral, Purity, Persons

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As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

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Law, Honor, Remedy

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

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Law, Obedience, Social

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Prosperity often presages adversity.

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Adversity, Prosperity

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

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Practice, Perfect, Source

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That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

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Men, Soul, He Man

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Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

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Children, Culprit, Ashamed

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Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

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Weed, Wisdom, Flower

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Experience is retrospect knowledge.

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Experience, Retrospect

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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

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Exaggeration Is, Blood, Relation

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How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

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White, Charity, Poor

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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

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Wise, Joy, Affliction

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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

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Sleep, Serenity, Welcome

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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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Character, White, Ink

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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

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Charity, Emulation, Spontaneous

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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

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Practice, Doubt, Creeds

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The eye is inlet to the soul.

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Eye, Soul

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

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Mother, Children, Degrees

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It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

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Book, Names, Ancestry

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

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Prayer, Tests, Enterprise

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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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Prayer, Heart, Humble

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

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Oblivion, Injury, Lays

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

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Intellectual, Strive, Intellect

Hosea Ballou (1832). “Sermons on Important Doctrinal Subjects”, p.19

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It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

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Struggle, Ignorance, Blue

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Born: April 30, 1771
Died: June 7, 1852
Occupation: Writer
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