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Inspirational Quotes by Hosea Ballou
- Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
- Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
- Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
- No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
- Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
- A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.
- Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
- Experience is retrospect knowledge.
- It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
- How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
- Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
- Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction....
- There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.
- Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage....
- Mystery and innocence are not akin.
- Error is always more busy than truth.
- Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
- The eye is inlet to the soul.
- Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
- Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
- Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
- Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
- Obedience sums up our entire duty.
- We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
- A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento