Author: Hosea Ballou

Quotes

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

- Hosea Ballou

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 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.

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

- Hosea Ballou

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

- Hosea Ballou

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