Hosea Ballou Quotes - Page 4

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• Hatred is self-punishment.

  Hosea Ballou

  Hate, Self, Punishment

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• Obedience sums up our entire duty.

  Hosea Ballou

  Obedience, Duty

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• Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

  Hosea Ballou

  Adversity, Safe, Littles

  "Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopedia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1884.

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• Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.

  Hosea Ballou

  Keys, Moderation, Enjoyment

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• Mystery and innocence are not akin.

  Hosea Ballou

  Innocence, Mystery

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• Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

  Hosea Ballou

  Vain, Elsewhere, Repose

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• Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

  Hosea Ballou

  Justice, Sides

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• Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

  Hosea Ballou

  Nature, Health, Medicine

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• 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.

  Hosea Ballou

  Gratitude, Children, Father

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• 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.

  Hosea Ballou

  Kindness, Way, Speak

  "Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou. By his youngest son, Maturin M. Ballou". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1854.

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• Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

  Hosea Ballou

  Motto, Clergymen, Theme

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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.

  Hosea Ballou

  Religious, Practice, Doctrine

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• 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.

  Hosea Ballou

  People, World, Affliction

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• 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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  Heart, Water, Shining

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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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  Friendship, Happiness, Enemy

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

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  Inspirational, Business, Women

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• 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.

  Hosea Ballou

  Good Life, Honor, Care

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• There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

  Hosea Ballou

  Court, Breasts, Findings

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• 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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  Freedom, People, Important

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• Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

  Hosea Ballou

  Humanity, Progress, Looks

  "Edge-Tools of Speech". Book by Maturin M. Ballou, 1886.

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• Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

  Hosea Ballou

  May, Stones, Firsts

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• The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

  Hosea Ballou

  Humility, Men, Bows

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• Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

  Hosea Ballou

  Blessing, Events, Common

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• 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.

  Hosea Ballou

  Pride, Cost, Prosperity

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• That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

  Hosea Ballou

  Compassion, Punishment, Discipline

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