Hosea Ballou
Clergyman
1771-04-30
Quotes by Hosea Ballou
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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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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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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There is no such thing as best in the world of individuals.
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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.
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Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
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Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument that you can offer to the skeptic.
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.
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Experience is retrospect knowledge.
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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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Hatred is self-punishment.
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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The teacher is like the candle, it lights others in consuming itself.
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Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.
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