Quote by Tryon Edwards
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to ma

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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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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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. – Tryon Edwards

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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spiders web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. – Tryon Edwards

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We always weaken everything we exaggerate. – Fr餩ric-C鳡r La Harpe

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. – The Talmud

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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. – Walter Bagehot

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