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

Quote by Hosea Ballou

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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.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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...

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the...

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the...

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Mystery and innocence are not akin

Mystery and innocence are not akin

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is...

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is...

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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

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

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.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is...

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is...

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

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

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

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

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

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

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

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

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you...

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you...

When you doubt, abstain.

When you doubt, abstain.