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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to prac...

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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Real happiness is cheap enough yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little childre...

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Hatred is self-punishment.

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtu...

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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of children tends...

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Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.

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Hosea Ballou

Writer

Born: 1771-04-30

Died: 1852-06-07

Hosea Ballou (30 April 1771 – 7 June 1852) was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.More