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Quote by Hosea Ballou
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust tha

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

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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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Hosea Ballou
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I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things. – Bennett Miller

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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. – William Samuel Johnson

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