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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.
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