Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Quote by Hosea Ballou

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

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

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than...

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than...

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

There is no such things as est in the world of individuals.

There is no such things as est in the world of individuals.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little...

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little...

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

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is...

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is...

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his...

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his...

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It...

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It...

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

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

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children...

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children...