Hosea Ballou Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - Clergyman April 30, 1771 - June 7, 1852

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

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

Happiness Enough Real

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

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

Inspirational Rain Joy

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

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

Beauty Beautiful Difficult

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

Education Character Mother

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. - Hosea Ballou

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. Hosea Ballou

Nature Medical Disease

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. - Hosea Ballou

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. Hosea Ballou

Parents Brevity Correction

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. - Hosea Ballou

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. Hosea Ballou

Truth Way Doubt

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

Life Practice Argument

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. - Hosea Ballou

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. Hosea Ballou

Work Business Man

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. Hosea Ballou

Injustice Burden Bear

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. - Hosea Ballou

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

Age Youth Old Age

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

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

Ambition Virtue Parent

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. Hosea Ballou

Courage Truth Cowardice

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

Important People Opinion

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. - Hosea Ballou

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. Hosea Ballou

Your Former Charity

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

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

Nature Energy Will

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. Hosea Ballou

Blood Exaggeration Falsehood

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

Happiness Always Enemy

Error is always more busy than truth. Hosea Ballou

Truth Always Busy

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

Best World Things

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

Religion Devil Which

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

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

Experience Always Only

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

World Everything End

Hatred is self-punishment. Hosea Ballou

Never be so brief as to become obscure. Hosea Ballou

Never Obscure Brief

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