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

Quote by Hosea Ballou

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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.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.