Tryon Edwards Quotes

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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 and success of the future.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

  "The New Dictionary of Thoughts".

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• Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

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  Character, Destiny, Thinking

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• If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

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  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.717, Ravenio Books

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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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  Prejudice, Overcoming, Logic

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.94, Ravenio Books

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• Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

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  Health, Men, Years

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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• Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

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  Prayer, Thinking, Denial

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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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  Humility, Self, Spirit

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.605, Ravenio Books

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• He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

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  Change, Truth, Mistake

  Tryon Edwards (1962). “名人語錄”

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• Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

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  Parent, Anxiety, Poison

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.86, Ravenio Books

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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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  Religious, Errors, Grace

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 517), 1891.

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• Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

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  Inspirational, Way, Teach

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1349, Ravenio Books

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• 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.

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  Leisure, Accomplish, Organized

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.947, Ravenio Books

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• Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

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  Two, Evil, Choices

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.197, Ravenio Books

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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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  Death, May, Bread

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1004, Ravenio Books

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• 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.

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  Law, Facts, Assuming

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.434, Ravenio Books

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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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  Brother, Character, Assassins

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.885, Ravenio Books

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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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  Life, Anger, Anxiety

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.85, Ravenio Books

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• Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

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  I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

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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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  Inspirational, Death, Fear

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.535, Ravenio Books

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• He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

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  Anger, Sorrow, May

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.81, Ravenio Books

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• 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.

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  Strength, Chains That Bind, Broken

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 212), 1891.

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• 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.

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  Wise, Grieving, Men

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.238, Ravenio Books

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

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  Life And Love, Sunshine, Shadow

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.555, Ravenio Books

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• There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

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  Mind, Able, Accomplish

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.181

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