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
Practice, More, Avail, Argument
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
- Hosea Ballou
Blood, Exaggeration, Nearly, Falsehood
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
- Hosea Ballou
Education, Little Children, Hearsay
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
- Hosea Ballou
Nature, Mountains, Like, Grain
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
- Hosea Ballou
Devil, Which, Persecution, Sustain
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
- Hosea Ballou
Parents, Correction, Brevity
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
- Hosea Ballou
Always, Very, Theories, Thin
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
More, Other, Had, Render
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
- Hosea Ballou
Truth, Inquiry, Leads, Incentive
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
- Hosea Ballou
Work, Business, His, Greater
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
- Hosea Ballou
Charity, Never, Latter, Former
Error is always more busy than truth.
- Hosea Ballou
Truth, More, Always, Error
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
- Hosea Ballou
Beauty, Beautiful, Difficult, Appear
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
- Hosea Ballou
Truth, Courage, Cowardice, Falsehood
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
- Hosea Ballou
Injustice, Commit, Those, Bear
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
More, Always, Unjust, Wrong
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
- Hosea Ballou
Age, Fifty, Old, Forty
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
- Hosea Ballou
Book, End, World, Exists
There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.
- Hosea Ballou
Best, World, Things, Such Things
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
- Hosea Ballou
Never, Obscure, Become, Brief
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
- Hosea Ballou
Inspirational, Rain, Drops, Summer
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
- Hosea Ballou
Parent, Vice, Itself, Ambition
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Hosea Ballou
Happiness, How, Counterfeit, Dearly
Hatred is self-punishment.
- Hosea Ballou
Hatred
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
- Hosea Ballou
Nature, Medical, Disease, Outraged
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