Top 80 Tryon Edwards Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.”

— Tryon Edwards

52. “He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.”

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

54. “True art is reverent imitation of God.”

— Tryon Edwards

55. “If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.”

— Tryon Edwards

56. “Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.”

— Tryon Edwards

57. “Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.”

— Tryon Edwards

58. “Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.”

— Tryon Edwards

59. “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

60. “Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.”

— Tryon Edwards

61. “Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.”

— Tryon Edwards

62. “Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.”

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

64. “Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.”

— Tryon Edwards

65. “Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.”

— Tryon Edwards

66. “If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. One who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.”

— Tryon Edwards

67. “What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.”

— Tryon Edwards

68. “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

69. “There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.”

— Tryon Edwards

70. “Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.”

— Tryon Edwards

71. “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.”

— Tryon Edwards

72. “Never be so brief as to become obscure.”

— Tryon Edwards

73. “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.”

— Tryon Edwards

74. “This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.”

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

76. “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.”

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

78. “Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.”

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

80. “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.”

— Tryon Edwards

81. “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.”

— Tryon Edwards

82. “Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.”

— Tryon Edwards

83. “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.”

— Tryon Edwards

84. “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

85. “My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.”

— Tryon Edwards

86. “No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.”

— Tryon Edwards

87. “Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.”

— Tryon Edwards

88. “He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.”

— Tryon Edwards

89. “The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.”

— Tryon Edwards