Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Quote by Hosea Ballou

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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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

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

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

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

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

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

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.

I have ambitions I want to fulfil, to enjoy more success with Brazil.

I have ambitions I want to fulfil, to enjoy more success with Brazil.

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the...

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the...

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,...

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,...