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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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...

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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

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

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...

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

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

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

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.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

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

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

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...

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

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

Mystery and innocence are not akin

Mystery and innocence are not akin

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

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

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...

Error is always more busy than truth.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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...