Tryon Edwards Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.”
-- Tryon EdwardsSource : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.717, Ravenio Books
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“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.”
-- Tryon EdwardsSource : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.58, Ravenio Books
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“True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.”
-- Tryon EdwardsSource : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.605, Ravenio Books
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“We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.”
-- Tryon EdwardsSource : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.535, Ravenio Books
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“Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.”
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“Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.”
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“Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.”
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“Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.”
-- Tryon EdwardsSource : "The New Dictionary of Thoughts".
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“Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.”
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“Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.”
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“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.”
-- Tryon EdwardsSource : "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 212), 1891.
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“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.”
-- Tryon EdwardsSource : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.94, Ravenio Books
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“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 did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.”
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“This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.”
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“What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.”
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“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.”
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“The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.”
-- Tryon EdwardsSource : "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 517), 1891.
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“Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.”
-- Tryon EdwardsSource : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.555, Ravenio Books
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“He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.”
-- Tryon EdwardsSource : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.81, Ravenio Books
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“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”
-- Tryon EdwardsSource : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.197, Ravenio Books
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“To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.”
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“Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.”
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“True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.”
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“Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.”
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“We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.”
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“Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.”
-- Tryon EdwardsSource : Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.356
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“Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.”
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“We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.”
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“Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.”
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“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 shall call.”
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