Best Hosea Ballou Quotes
- Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. Cultivation
- Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. Almost Always
- Experience is retrospect knowledge. Experience
- It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our… Blessing
- It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. Appear
- Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. Blamable
- Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. Apt
- Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. Courage
- How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! Act
- A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. Affliction
- Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep. All
- True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation. Charity
- All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience. All
- Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.... Brevity
- There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. Breast
- Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.... Courage
- Mystery and innocence are not akin. Akin
- Error is always more busy than truth. Busy
- The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. Act
- The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it. Consciousness
- It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man… Another Since
- There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals. Best
- Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because… Companion
- Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice. Cannot Reduce
- There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of… Criteria