Hosea Ballou

Clergyman

50 Quotes

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

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

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

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

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

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

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

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