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All Quotes by author - Hosea Ballou

" Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. "

" Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. "

" Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. "

" Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. "

" Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. "

" Error is always more busy than truth. "

" Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. "

" Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. "

" Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. "

" Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. "

" Hatred is self-punishment. "

" It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. "

" Never be so brief as to become obscure. "

" Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. "

" No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. "

" Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. "

" Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. "

" Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. "

" 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. "

" Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. "

" 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. "

" Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. "

" There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals. "

" Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. "

" Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. "

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