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

Quote by Hosea Ballou

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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...

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...

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...

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

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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.

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

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

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...

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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

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