Hosea Ballou - People Quotes

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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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Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.

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Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

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There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.

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Few things in this world trouble people more than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and indeed it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence, and temperance is a certain cure.

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Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

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