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Often Quotes by Tryon Edwards
- Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I…
- There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.
- Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
- He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the…
- Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
- Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web,…
- We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the…
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