Books Quote by Hosea Ballou Download Open image “A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.” — Hosea Ballou ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Chaste Inspirational Style Traits
Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A person's style is always evolving, and it should be something you have fun experimenting with. — Alex Low Copy Share Image
Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect who you… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else. — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock… — Hosea Ballou 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 fair blossom,… — Hosea Ballou 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 boast of… — Hosea Ballou 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 Copy Share Image
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou 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 person, but… — Hosea Ballou 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, while they… — Hosea Ballou 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 Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
