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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

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

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

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hosea Ballou

Hatred

Self

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Hosea Ballou

Charity

Zeal

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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

Hosea Ballou

Happiness

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

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

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.

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

Hosea Ballou

Experience

Theories

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Hosea Ballou

Burden

Injustice

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