Tryon Edwards

(240 votes)   Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Tryon Edwards
1809-1894, American Theologian

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(216 votes)   Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

Tryon Edwards
1809-1894, American Theologian

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(138 votes)   Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

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(97 votes)   Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

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(95 votes)   Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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(86 votes)   Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

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(86 votes)   Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

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(85 votes)   Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

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(83 votes)   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.

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(83 votes)   Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

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1809-1894, American Theologian

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(77 votes)   Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

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(74 votes)   Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

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(74 votes)   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.

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(70 votes)   To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

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(56 votes)   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.

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1809-1894, American Theologian

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