Argument Quote by Hosea Ballou

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

— Hosea Ballou

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

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

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

The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

— Hosea Ballou

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

— Hosea Ballou

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

— Hosea Ballou

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

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

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction…

— Hosea Ballou

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

— Hosea Ballou

“Kecurigaan selalu menjadi musuh kebahagiaan.”

— Hosea Ballou