Tryon Edwards Quotes

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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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
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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.
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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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What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
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To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is better.
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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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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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Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.
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He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
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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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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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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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Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
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Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
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Facts are God’s arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
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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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