Tryon Edwards Quotes

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If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure that wealth can give.

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Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

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Fables, like parables, are more ancient than formal arguments and are often the most effective means of presenting and impressing both truth and duty.

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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

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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.

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The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.

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Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. – A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

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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 household.

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There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.

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It has been said that science is opposed to, and in conflict with revelation. But the history of the former shows that the greater its progress, and the more accurate its investigations and results, the more plainly it is seen not only not to clash with the latter, but in all things to confirm it. The very sciences from which objections have been brought against religion have, by their own progress, removed those objections, and in the end furnished full confirmation of the inspired Word of God.

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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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The desires and longings of man are vast as eternity, and they point him to it.

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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

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Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

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To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

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Thoughts lead on to purposes ; puposes go forth in actions ; actions form habits ; habits decide character ; and character fixes our destiny.

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To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

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Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

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Facts are God's arguments : we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

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The leaves in autumn do not change color from the blighting touch of frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit is ripened, and their work is done. And their splendid coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man. And 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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Have something to say ; say it ; and stop when you've done.

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Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

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He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kind of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

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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.

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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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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread ; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

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