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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. – Tryon Edwards

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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. – Tryon Edwards

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Education
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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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Exaggeration
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