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