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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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Tryon Edwards
Born:
August 7, 1809
Died:
January 4, 1894
(aged 84)
Bio:
Tryon Edwards was an American theologian, best known for compiling A Dictionary of Thoughts, a book of quotations. He published the works of Jonathan Edwards in 1842.
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