Hosea Ballou Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Hosea Ballou
Hosea Ballou Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.
Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.
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.
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.
I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.
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.
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.
Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
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.
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
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.
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.
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.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.
The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.