"Some blame themselves to extort the praise of……" — Tryon Edwards

"Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others."

— Tryon Edwards

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81 Quotes by Tryon Edwards

Tryon Edwards has 81 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius…
Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our…
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to…
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…
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…
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…
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…

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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I… — Darren Aronofsky
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you.… — Drew Barrymore
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. — Bernard Baruch
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. — Scott Adams
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. — Samuel Beckett
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for… — Tony Benn
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change… — Yogi Berra
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it… — Yogi Berra
Everyone's quick to blame the alien. — Aeschylus
One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even… — Mary J. Blige
If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we… — Michael Bloomberg
It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies… — John Bolton

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