Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Quote by Hosea Ballou

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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...

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

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

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...

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Mystery and innocence are not akin

Mystery and innocence are not akin

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

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.