Tryon Edwards Quotes

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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.

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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

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Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

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Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

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Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

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No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

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Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

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He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

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Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

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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 evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny. – As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.'

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Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

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Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path, and none can say where the descent will end. – 'He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little.'

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Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws – a thing which can never be demonstrated.

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Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

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Some men are born old, and some never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful we are always young, and at last die in youth, even when years would count us old.

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Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

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He is one of the noblest conquerors who carries on a successful warfare against his own appetites and passions, and has them under wise and full control.

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Preventives of evil are far better than remedies ; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

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Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

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Ridicule may be the evidence of wit or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

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The highest attainment, as well as enjoyment of the spiritual life, is to be able at all times and in all things to say, 'Thy will be done.'

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Contemplation is to knowledge, what digestion is to food – the way to get life out of it.

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Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.

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The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind ; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

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Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

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Whatever the place allocated us by providence, that is for us the post of honor and duty. – God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

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Deference is the instinctive respect which we pay to the great and good. The unconcious acknowledgement of the superiority or excellence of others.

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