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

Quote by Hosea Ballou

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

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

Error is always more busy than truth.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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...

Mystery and innocence are not akin

Mystery and innocence are not akin

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

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...

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.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth