Tryon Edwards quotes - page 2

There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven. (Tryon Edwards)
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
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He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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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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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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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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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
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Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
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What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
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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. (Tryon Edwards)
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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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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Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
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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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To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is still better.
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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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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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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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Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth. (Tryon Edwards)
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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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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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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Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events.
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