What did Hosea Ballou mean by: Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty. Hosea Ballou Copy
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hosea Ballou, Persistence, Power, Transformation, 0 Hosea Ballou
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hosea Ballou, Application, Imperfection, Source, 0 Hosea Ballou
The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hosea Ballou, Experience, Knowledge, Wisdom, 0 Hosea Ballou
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hosea Ballou, Blame, Exaggeration, Falsehood, 0 Hosea Ballou
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hosea Ballou, Emptiness, Idleness, 0 Hosea Ballou
All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hosea Ballou, Conscience, Health, Possessions, 0 Hosea Ballou
No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hosea Ballou, Example, Influence, Morality, 0 Hosea Ballou
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hosea Ballou, Authenticity, Costliness, Happiness, 0 Hosea Ballou
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
In Europe public men do resign. But here it’s a lost art. You have to impeach ’em. Will Rogers Comedian and actor · USA
