“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 350.
Hosea Ballou D.D. was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.
Originally a Baptist, he converted to Universalism in 1789. He preached in a number of towns in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. From 1817, he was pastor of the Second Universalist Church of Boston. He wrote a number of influential theological works, as well as hymns, essays and sermons, and edited two Universalist journals. Ballou has been called one of the fathers of American Universalism.
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“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 350.
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 254.
“Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.”
Reported in Edge-Tools of Speech (1886) by Maturin M. Ballou, p. 397.
“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.”
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 384.
“As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.”
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 828.
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 655.
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 354.
“A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.”
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 758.
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 216.
Reported in Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou (1854) p. 261.