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Hosea Ballou Quotes: Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
         

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


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



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Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.



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There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.



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

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



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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.



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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.



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



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