Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on… — Hosea Ballou Acid Copy Share Image
Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the… — Hosea Ballou Care Copy Share Image
Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to… — Hosea Ballou Courage Copy Share Image
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. — Hosea Ballou Beauty Copy Share Image
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou Character Copy Share Image
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the… — Hosea Ballou Companion Copy Share Image
Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which,… — Hosea Ballou Devotion Copy Share Image
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. — Hosea Ballou Breasts Copy Share Image
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty. — Hosea Ballou Altars Copy Share Image
Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness. — Hosea Ballou Inspirational Copy Share Image
Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have… — Hosea Ballou Consequence Copy Share Image
Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion. — Hosea Ballou Altars Copy Share Image
Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life. — Hosea Ballou Blessing Copy Share Image
It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the… — Hosea Ballou Bees Copy Share Image
Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer. — Hosea Ballou Business Copy Share Image
Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity… — Hosea Ballou Cost Copy Share Image
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. — Hosea Ballou Adoration Copy Share Image
The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the… — Hosea Ballou Casts Copy Share Image
