"To murder character is as truly a crime……" — Tryon Edwards
"To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin"
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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…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl,…
— Guy de Maupassant
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with…
— Tryon Edwards
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
— Albert Camus
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Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I…
— Russell Brand
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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
— Malcolm Lowry
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You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We…
— Rush Limbaugh
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You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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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?,
— Unknown Author
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