Quotes of Hosea Ballou - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. ”

- Hosea Ballou

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

- Hosea Ballou

“ Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith… Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it. ”

- Hosea Ballou

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

- Hosea Ballou

“ Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. ”

- Hosea Ballou

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

- Hosea Ballou

“ Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith… Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation. ”

- Hosea Ballou

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

- Hosea Ballou

“ Mystery and innocence are not akin. ”

- Hosea Ballou

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

- Hosea Ballou

“ Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated. ”

- Hosea Ballou

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

- Hosea Ballou

“ Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character. ”

- Hosea Ballou
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