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One 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…
- 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…
- To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
- Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
- To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare