Tryon Edwards Quotes

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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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Sense, brevity and point are the elements of a good proverb.

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Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

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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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Statistics is the science of learning from experiences, especially experiences that arrive a little bit at a time.

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

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Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

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A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

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The study of mathematics is like climbing up a steep and craggy mountain; when once you reach the top, it fully recompenses your trouble, by opening a fine, clear, and extensive prospect.

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My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

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Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past – the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

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Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

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Hell is truth seen too late — duty neglected in its season.

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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.

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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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Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

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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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The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.

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Temperance is to the body what religion is to the soul, the foundation and source of health and strength and peace.

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This world is the land of the dying ; the next is the land of the living.

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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.

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The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves – our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

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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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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

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Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

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Credulity is belief on slight evidence, with no evidence, or or against evidence. In this sense it is the infidel, not the believer, who is credulous. 'The simple,' says Solomon, 'believeth every word.'

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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit : and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. — At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

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