Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness.

Hosea Ballou
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  1. Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness. - Hosea Ballou

  2. As to Caesar when he was called upon he gave no testimony against Clodius nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to... - Plutarch

  3. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind The thief doth fear each bush an officer. - William Shakespeare

  4. The less we know the more we suspect. - H. W. Shaw

  5. A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself. - Marguerite De Valois

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  2. Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

  3. Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

  4. Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.

  5. There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.

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