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25 quotes by Hosea Ballou

Hosea Ballou Born (1771-04-30)April 30, 1771 Richmond, New Hampshire, US Died June 6, 1852(1852-06-06) (aged 81) Boston, Massachusetts, US Religion Universalist Hosea Ballou (April 30, 1771 – June 7, 1852) was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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

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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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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.

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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

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Hatred is self-punishment.

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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

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Error is always more busy than truth.

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There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

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Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

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