Tryon Edwards Quotes (57 Quotes)


    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.

    Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

    Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

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

    Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.


    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.

    Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

    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

    He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

    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.

    To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is still better.

    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.

    He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind

    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

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

    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.

    Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

    He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

    Hell is truth seen too late - duty neglected in its season

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

    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.

    This world is the land of the dying the next is the land of the living.

    High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

    Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events.

    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.

    Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

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

    There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.

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

    Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

    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

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

    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.

    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.

    The first evil choice or act is linked to the second and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

    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.

    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.

    To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

    Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

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

    Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.


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