Tryon Edwards Quotes

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

Good, Hope, Sacrifice

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

Best, Future, Bad

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

Death, Heaven, Reunion

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

Strength, May, Through

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

Death, End, May

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

Work, Great, God

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.
Tryon Edwards

Education, Great, Mind

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

Good, Power, Means

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Tryon Edwards

Truth, Elements, Falsehood

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

Today, Mistakes, Opinion

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

Great, Minds, High

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
Tryon Edwards

Themselves, Unless, Example

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

Men, Die, Young

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

Give, Another, Content

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.
Tryon Edwards

Power, Living, Keep

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

Death, May, Heaven

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

Age, Health, Men

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

Two, Between, Both

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

Against, Belief, Evidence

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

God, Facts, Careful

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

Soon, Define, Engaged

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
Tryon Edwards

Ignorance, Another, Name

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

Faith, Science, Sometimes

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.
Tryon Edwards

Happiness, Sunshine, Find

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

Anger, Rule, Prevent

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: 1809

Died: 1894

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