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She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.
— Joyce Ballou Gregorian
The law of heaven is love.
— Hosea Ballou
A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.
— Hosea Ballou
Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.
— Hosea Ballou
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
— Hosea Ballou
Rage is mental imbecility.
— Hosea Ballou
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
— Hosea Ballou
Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.
— Hosea Ballou
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
— Hosea Ballou
Hatred is self-punishment.
— Hosea Ballou
The eye is inlet to the soul.
— Hosea Ballou
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.
— Hosea Ballou
Self-respect is the best of all.
— Hosea Ballou
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
— Hosea Ballou
No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.
— Hosea Ballou
Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.
— Hosea Ballou
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.
— Hosea Ballou
Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it
no matter how slow or long the process seems at first. — Mardi Ballou
no matter how slow or long the process seems at first. — Mardi Ballou
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
— Hosea Ballou
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.
— Hosea Ballou
All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
— Hosea Ballou
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
— Hosea Ballou
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
— Hosea Ballou
True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.
— Hosea Ballou
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.
— Hosea Ballou
Humanity , in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.
— Hosea Ballou
True repentance always involves reform.
— Hosea Ballou
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
— Hosea Ballou
There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.
— Hosea Ballou
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
— Hosea Ballou
Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
— Hosea Ballou
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
— Hosea Ballou
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
— Hosea Ballou
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
— Hosea Ballou
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
— Hosea Ballou
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
— Hosea Ballou
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.
— Hosea Ballou
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
— Hosea Ballou
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
— Hosea Ballou
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.
— Hosea Ballou
Obedience sums up our entire duty.
— Hosea Ballou
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.
— Hosea Ballou
Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
— Hosea Ballou
There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
— Hosea Ballou
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
— Hosea Ballou
For mine is the old belief ... There is a soil in every leaf.
— Maturin Murray Ballou
There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
— Hosea Ballou
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
[M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break ...
— Sullivan Ballou
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
Moderation is the key of lasting enjoyment.
— Hosea Ballou
The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! Amen
— Linda Ballou
How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
— Hosea Ballou
Prosperity often presages adversity.
— Hosea Ballou
Mystery and innocence are not akin.
— Hosea Ballou
Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
— Hosea Ballou
Error is always more busy than truth.
— Hosea Ballou
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.
— Hosea Ballou
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
Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.
— Hosea Ballou
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.
— Hosea Ballou
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
The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
— Hosea Ballou
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.
— Hosea Ballou
Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
— Hosea Ballou
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.
— Hosea Ballou
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
— Hosea Ballou