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

Quote by Hosea Ballou

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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...

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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...

Error is always more busy than truth.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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

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