Hosea Ballou Quotes

American - Clergyman | April 30, 1771 - June 7, 1852

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

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

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

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Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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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.

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

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

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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

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

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

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

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

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