Author: Hosea Ballou

Quotes

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

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

- Hosea Ballou

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

- Hosea Ballou

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

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

- Hosea Ballou

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

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

- Hosea Ballou

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

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

- 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.

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

- Hosea Ballou

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

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

- Hosea Ballou

Error is always more busy than truth.

Error is always more busy than truth.

- Hosea Ballou

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

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

- Hosea Ballou

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