Tryon Edwards Quotes

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• We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.
• Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
• The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace,…
• 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…
• Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.
• We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to…
• To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and…
• Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
• Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.
• Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
• The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit…
• Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
• Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
• Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
• Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
• Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die…
• 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,…
• Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
• To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of…
• 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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