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

Quote by Hosea Ballou

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

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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 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...

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

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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...

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.

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

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