Tryon Edwards Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• 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.

  Tryon Edwards

  Children, Book, Hands

  Tryon Edwards (1866). “World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and Poetry”, p.236

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

  Tryon Edwards

  Life And Love, Sunshine, Shadow

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

• True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.

  Tryon Edwards

  Heart, Emotion, Enlightened

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1145, Ravenio Books

• Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

  Tryon Edwards

  Wisdom, Procrastination, Safety

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.298, Ravenio Books

• Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

  Tryon Edwards

  Truth, Path, Deviation

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.313, Ravenio Books

• Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is 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.

  Tryon Edwards

  Honor, Way, Providence

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.208

• A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

  Tryon Edwards

  Christian, Solitary Life, Faithful

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.588, Ravenio Books

• Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

  Tryon Edwards

  Giving, Soul, Firmness

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.349, Ravenio Books

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