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Men Quotes by Tryon Edwards
- 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…
- 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…
- Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
- Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
- 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…
- 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…
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