Top 100 Hosea Ballou Quotes
#1. No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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#2. Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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#3. There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.
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#4. Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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#5. Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.
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#6. It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.
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#7. There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
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#8. None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.
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#9. As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!
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#10. All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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#11. Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.
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#12. Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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#13. The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
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#15. The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.
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#16. Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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#17. Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.
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#18. True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
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#19. Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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#20. Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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#21. Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
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#22. Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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#23. How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
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#24. A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.
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#25. A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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#26. Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
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#27. A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
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#28. It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.
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#31. No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.
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#33. A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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#34. How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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#35. The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
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#36. Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
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#37. It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.
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#38. Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.
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#39. Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.
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#40. Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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#41. Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
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#42. Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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#43. That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
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#44. It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
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#45. Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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#46. Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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#47. As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
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#48. It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.
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#49. Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.
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#50. 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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#51. Moderation is the key of lasting enjoyment.
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#52. Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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#53. Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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#54. That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
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#55. It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.
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#56. Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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#57. There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
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#58. You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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#59. Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.
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#60. Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
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#61. With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.
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#62. Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.
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#63. How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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#65. A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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#66. It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
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#67. Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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#68. If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.
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#69. Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
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#70. Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.
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#71. Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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#72. To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.
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#73. It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.
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#74. Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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#75. It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.
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#77. Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.
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#79. We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
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#80. Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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#81. Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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#82. Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.
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#83. A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.
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#84. Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.
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#85. If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?
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#86. Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.
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#87. It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
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#88. Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.
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#89. Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
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#90. The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.
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#91. No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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#92. 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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#93. Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
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#94. Humanity , in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.
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#95. Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.
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#96. Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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#98. 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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#99. Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.
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