Hosea Ballou Quotes and Quotations
Hatred is self-punishment. Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment. There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it. Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains. Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character. Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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