A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page
Hosea Ballou
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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Mystery and innocence are not akin
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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction
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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.
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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.
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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
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Error is always more busy than truth.
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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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