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

Quote by Hosea Ballou

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Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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...

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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...

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.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Mystery and innocence are not akin

Mystery and innocence are not akin

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.

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...

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

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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

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

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

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