Tryon Edwards quotes - page 4

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life. (Tryon Edwards)
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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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 and ruin.
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Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God morality is religion with its face toward the world.
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We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.
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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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Sincerity is no test of truth - no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life.
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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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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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