Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Hosea Ballou quotes, Hosea Ballou sayings, and Hosea Ballou proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.Hosea Ballou
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.Hosea Ballou
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blamable.Hosea Ballou
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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.Hosea Ballou
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It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.Hosea Ballou
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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.Hosea Ballou
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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
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O sin, how you paint your face! How you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!Hosea Ballou