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Hosea Ballou
American
Clergyman
About the author
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Parents
#Correction
#Brevity
Error is always more busy than truth.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Truth
#Error
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Will
#Mountains
#Energy
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Character
#Children
#Word
#Mother
#Education
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Disease
#Nature
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#World
#End
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Truth
#Doubt
There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#World
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Blood
#Exaggeration
#Falsehood
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Burden
#Injustice
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Experience
#Theories
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,
American
Clergyman
#People
#Effect
#Opinions
#Opinion
#Oppression
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Summer
#Rain
#Joy
#Tears
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,
American
Clergyman
#Right
#Enemy
#Friend
#Wrong
#Virtue
#Suspicion
#Happiness
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Religion
#Devil
#Persecution
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Happiness
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Truth
#Courage
#Cowardice
#Falsehood
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Work
#Man
#Business
#Pride
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Zeal
#Charity
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
Hatred is self-punishment.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Self
#Hatred
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Virtue
#Vice
#Ambition
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea Ballou,
American
Clergyman
#Youth
#Old
#Age
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,
American
Clergyman
#Life
#Practice
#Argument
#Preaching