Hosea Ballou was a famous Clergyman from USA, who lived between April 30, 1771 and 1852.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 25 quotes who is written / told by Hosea, under the main topic Age.
25 Famous quotes by Hosea Ballou
"Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic"
"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age"
"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible"
"Everything in the world exists to end up in a book"
"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character"
"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit"
"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage"
"Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue"
"Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden"
"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"
"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable"
"Error is always more busy than truth"
"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation"
"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine"
"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals"
"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"
"Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains"
"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way"
"Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction"
"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams"
"No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work"
"Never be so brief as to become obscure"
"Hatred is self-punishment"
"It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so"
