Hosea Ballou - Quotes
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. ---->>>
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. ---->>>
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. ---->>>
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. ---->>>
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. ---->>>
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. ---->>>
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. ---->>>
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. ---->>>
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. ---->>>
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. ---->>>
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
Error is always more busy than truth. ---->>>
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ---->>>
Hatred is self-punishment. ---->>>
There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals. ---->>>
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. ---->>>
Never be so brief as to become obscure. ---->>>
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. ---->>>
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. ---->>>
Biography
Hosea Ballou (April 30, 1771 – June 7, 1852) was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. He has been called one of the fathers of American Universalism.(wikipedia)