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Hosea Ballou [1771-1852] American

Rank: 102
Clergyman, Writer

Hosea Ballou was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. He has been called one of the fathers of American Universalism.

Happiness, Nature, Age, Beauty, Business, Courage, Education, Inspirational, Life, Medical, Truth

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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.	Inspirational	101
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.	Life	102
Hatred is self-punishment.		103
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.		104
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.	Happiness	105
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.	Truth	106
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.	Nature	107
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.	Happiness	108
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.	Medical, Nature	109
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.		110
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.	Age	111
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.	Business	112
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.	Beauty	113
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.	Education	114
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.		115
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.	Courage	116
Never be so brief as to become obscure.		117
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.		118
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.		119
Error is always more busy than truth.		120
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.		121
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.		122
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.		123
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.		124
There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.		125

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