Famous Quotes / Hosea Ballou
25 Quotations by Hosea Ballou
- 1. A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.
- 2. A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white ...
- 3. Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
- 4. Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
- 5. Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
- 6. Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little childre ...
- 7. Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains.
- 8. Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
- 9. Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
- 10. Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
- 11. Hatred is self-punishment.
- 12. Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
- 13. Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
- 14. No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
- 15. Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argume ...
- 16. Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- 17. Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue ...
- 18. Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
- 19. The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in hu ...
- 20. The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those op ...