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Hosea Ballou (April 30, 1771 - June 7, 1852) was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. Hosea Ballou was born in Richmond, New Hampshire. The son of Maturin Ballou, a Baptist minister, he was self-educated, and devoted himself early on to the ministry. In 1789 he converted to Universalism, and in 1794 became a pastor of a congregation in Dana, Massachusetts. He preached at Barnard, Vermont and surrounding towns in 1801-1807; at Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1807-1815; at Salem, Massachusetts in 1815-1817; and as pastor of the Second Universalist Church in Boston from December 1817 until his death there. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way."

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

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"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."

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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."

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

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

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"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."

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"The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration."

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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."

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