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Quote by Hosea Ballou
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamab

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. – Hosea Ballou

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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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Happiness
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The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. – Hosea Ballou

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Praise
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the cowards revenge for being intimidated. – Hosea Ballou

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Hate
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Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. – Tryon Edwards

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We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no one who does not exaggerate! – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. – Henry David Thoreau

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