Quotes by Hosea Ballou

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

#Ambition

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

#Charity

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

#Disease

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

#Falsehood, #Truth

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the...

#Habit

Mystery and innocence are not akin

#Innocence

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

#Business, #Pride

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

#Self Doubt

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

#Self Happiness

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

#Self Hatred

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It...

#Being Trusted