Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. – Hosea Ballou
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. – Hosea Ballou
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. – Hosea Ballou
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. – Hosea Ballou
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. – Hosea Ballou
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. – Hosea Ballou
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that…. I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. – Abraham Cowley
Destroy the roots of the healthiest plants, their heads will droop and die. Many excellent qualities of the mind have their roots, in fact, in the body: their summits, which adorn the spiritual being, the mind, will wither, if we neglect the soil of these valuable plants… – C.G. Salzmann, Gymnastics for Youth: or, A Practical Guide to Healthful and Amus