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

Quote by Hosea Ballou

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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...

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

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

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

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

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

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.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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.

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.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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

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