Top 100 Hosea Ballou Quotes
#1. Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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#2. How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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#8. I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
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#9. There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
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#13. Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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#15. Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.
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#16. Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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#17. Moderation is the key of lasting enjoyment.
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#18. 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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#19. Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.
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#20. 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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#21. As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
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#22. Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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#23. True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.
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#24. Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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#25. 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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#26. It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.
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#27. Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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#28. Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
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#29. Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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#30. The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.
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#31. Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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#32. We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
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#34. There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.
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#35. Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.
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#37. 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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#38. Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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#39. O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!
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#40. There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.
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#41. Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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#42. 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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#43. Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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#44. 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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#45. Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
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#46. 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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#47. Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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#48. It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
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#49. A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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#50. The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
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#51. Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.
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#52. Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.
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#53. Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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#54. True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
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#55. Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.
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#56. Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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#57. 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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#58. Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.
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#61. 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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#62. Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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#63. There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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#64. Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
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#65. All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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#66. 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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#67. None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.
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#68. Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. 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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#73. Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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#74. There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.
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#75. Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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#76. No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.
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#77. 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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#78. Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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#79. Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
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#80. Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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#81. Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.
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#82. 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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#83. It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.
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#84. Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
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#85. 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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#86. How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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#87. A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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#89. No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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#92. The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
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#93. 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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#94. A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
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#95. 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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#96. A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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#97. 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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#98. How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
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#99. Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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#100. Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
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