“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.”

—  Hosea Ballou

Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 384.

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American Universalist minister (1771–1852) 1771–1852

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