Hosea Ballou

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

— Hosea Ballou

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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

#enemy #far #friend #happiness #just

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#experience #insubstantial #only #tangible #theories

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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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. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#deeper #effect #fix #had #important