Quote by Tryon Edwards
To rejoice in anothers prosperity is to give content to your lot;

To rejoice in anothers prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate anothers grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. – Tryon Edwards

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

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