Tryon Edwards Quotes

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• Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is…
• Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.
• 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…
• Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
• Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where…
• Never be so brief as to become obscure.
• Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
• 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…
• Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
• Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
• Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
• Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all…
• Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far…
• Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
• The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The…
• Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward…
• What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
• To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
• Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
• Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

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