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Hosea Ballou Quotes

«Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable»
«Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.»
Author: Hosea Ballou | About: Ambition | Keywords: parent, vice
«Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.»
Author: Hosea Ballou | Keywords: insubstantial
«Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.»
«Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature»
Author: Hosea Ballou | About: Disease | Keywords: outraged, retribution, retributions
«Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction»
Author: Hosea Ballou | About: Parents | Keywords: conciseness, correction
«Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself»
«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»
Author: Hosea Ballou
«Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden»
Author: Hosea Ballou
«Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.»
Author: Hosea Ballou

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