Tryon Edwards Quotes

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• Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
• This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.
• Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and…
• There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.
• The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has…
• Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
• Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what…
• Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
• One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God…
• Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
• Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound…
• To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the…
• The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our…
• Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
• Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
• High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
• 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…
• Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.
• Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by…

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