"The slanderer and the assassin differ only in……" — Tryon Edwards
"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 former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation."
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81 Quotes by Tryon Edwards
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Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius…
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Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our…
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to…
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Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where…
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave…
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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow…
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Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of…
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin…
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
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You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We…
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I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential…
— Sergio Leone
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Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin.…
— Alan Barth
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In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?,
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To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother…
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