Quotes by Hosea Ballou

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

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than...

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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...

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

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

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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is...

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

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Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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

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Hatred is self-punishment.

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

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