Hosea Ballou Quotes

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• Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
• Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
• Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
• 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…
• Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
• Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
• 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.
• Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
• Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
• Hatred is self-punishment.
• Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
• Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
• It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
• Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
• Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
• If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our…
• Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
• No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

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