Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
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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.Tryon Edwards
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.
Tryon Edwards
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.
Tryon Edwards
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
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.
Tryon Edwards
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Tryon Edwards
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