Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Tryon Edwards
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Last updated on November 26, 2024.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
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.
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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.
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
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.
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.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
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.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
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."
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
Sincerity is not 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?
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
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.
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.
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
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.
Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
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.
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
Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.
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.
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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