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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. - Hosea Bal

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. – Hosea Ballou

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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

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Evangelism
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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

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Habits
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The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. – Francois FeNelon

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Beware of expanding what is clear…. A literary work is produced by means of art, a book by means of ink and paper. You may produce a work in two pages, and only make a book although you fill ten volumes folio. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey

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Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish

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