"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and……" — Hosea Ballou
"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable."
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- I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it. — Mark Twain
- All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Exaggeration is my only reality. — Diana Vreeland
- To exaggerate is to weaken. — Jean-Francois de La Harpe
- Hyperbole is a thousand times better than exaggeration. — Steve Carell
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- False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. — William Rounseville Alger
72 Quotes by Hosea Ballou
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- 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,…
- 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,…
- 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.
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