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

Quote by Hosea Ballou

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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...

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...

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...

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

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

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

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

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.

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.

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

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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...

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

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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.