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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.
~ Hosea Ballou - [Suspicion]
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
~ Hosea Ballou - [Tears]
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
~ Hosea Ballou - [Theory]
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The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
~ Hosea Ballou - [Praise]
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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
~ Hosea Ballou - [Preachers and Preaching]
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
~ Hosea Ballou - [Freedom]
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
~ Hosea Ballou - [Habit]
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
~ Hosea Ballou - [Happiness]
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
~ Hosea Ballou - [Hatred]
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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
~ Hosea Ballou - [Doubt]
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
~ Hosea Ballou - [Example]
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
~ Hosea Ballou - [Zeal]
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