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

Hosea Ballou was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.

Clergyman, Theological Writer | American

Born: 1771-04-30 in Richmond, New Hampshire, USA

Died: June 7, 1852 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Hosea Ballou

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

Hosea Ballou

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.

Hosea Ballou

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

Hosea Ballou

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Hosea Ballou

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

Hosea Ballou

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