Hosea Ballou Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

25 Famous Quotes by Hosea Ballou
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“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.”
Falsehood Quotes
“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.”
Education Quotes
Source: Sermons, a manuscript
“A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.”
Style Quotes
Source: Manuscript Sermons
“As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.”
Unkindness Quotes
Source: Manuscript Sermons
“My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear.”
Unkindness Quotes
Source: Manuscript Sermons
“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”
Happiness Quotes
Source: Manuscript--Sermons
“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.”
Idleness Quotes
Source: Manuscript--Sermons
“In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]”
Idleness Quotes
Source: Manuscript--Sermons
“There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.”
Faith Quotes
Source: Manuscript--Sermons
“Hatred is self-punishment.”
Hatred Quotes
Source: Manuscript--Sermons
“God's glowing covenant.”
Rainbows Quotes
Source: MS. Sermons
“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.”
Charity Quotes
“A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.”
Fault Quotes
“Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
Hatred Quotes
“Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.”
Suspicion Quotes
“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.”
Zeal Quotes
“Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.”
Brevity Quotes
“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”
Age Quotes
“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.”
Disease Quotes
“A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.”
Habit Quotes
“Hatred is self-punishment.”
Hate Quotes
“Mystery and innocence are not akin.”
Mystery Quotes
“The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.”
Oppression Quotes
“Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.”
Pretension Quotes
“It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.”
Vice Quotes