| 32 Famous Quotes by Tryon Edwards
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“Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument”
Anecdotes Quotes |
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“Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind”
Brotherhood Quotes |
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“From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.”
Compromise Quotes |
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“Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.”
Controversy Quotes |
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“Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence”
Credulity Quotes |
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“Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong”
Guilt Quotes |
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“The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all”
Improvement Quotes |
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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.”
Temperament Quotes |
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“Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny”
Thinking Quotes |
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“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.”
Education Quotes |
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“The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.”
Memory Quotes |
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“Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.”
Accuracy Quotes |
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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.”
Exaggeration Quotes |
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“To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.”
Inspirational Quotes |
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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.”
Age Quotes |
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“Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.”
All about love Quotes |
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“Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.”
Accuracy Quotes |
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“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.”
All about the self Quotes |
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“To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards.”
Anger Quotes |
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“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.”
Books and reading Quotes |
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“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”
Choice Quotes |
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“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.”
Compromise Quotes |
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“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.”
Grave Quotes |
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“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”
Literature Quotes |
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“Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain.”
Mystery Quotes |
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Tryon Edwards Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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