33 Quotations by Tryon Edwards
- 1. Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
- 2. Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where ...
- 3. Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it ...
- 4. Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
- 5. Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often e ...
- 6. Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
- 7. Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough ...
- 8. Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
- 9. Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it ...
- 10. Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only ...
- 11. He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than ...
- 12. He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
- 13. High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
- 14. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
- 15. Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superio ...
- 16. Never be so brief as to become obscure.
- 17. People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
- 18. Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Sai ...
- 19. Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
- 20. Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, i ...
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