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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

Mind, May, Littles

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1191, Ravenio Books

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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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Life, Anger, Anxiety

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.85, Ravenio Books

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A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

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Christian, Solitary Life, Faithful

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.588, Ravenio Books

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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.

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Commitment, Loss, Sacrifice

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.224, Ravenio Books

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Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

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Believe, Medicine, Poison

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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

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Wise, Grieving, Men

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.238, Ravenio Books

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Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

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Ignorance, Greek, Inquiry

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1423, Ravenio Books

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He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

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Truth, Errors, Evil

"A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 438), 1891.

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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

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Brother, Truth, Honesty

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.37, Ravenio Books

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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.

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Engagement, Definitions, Firsts

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.246, Ravenio Books

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Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

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Truth, Path, Deviation

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.313, Ravenio Books

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The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.

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Beautiful, Summer, Fall

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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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Fall, Lessons, Genocide

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.110, Ravenio Books

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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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Self, Criticism, Desert

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.173, Ravenio Books

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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.

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Honor, Way, Providence

Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.208

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Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

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Children, Book, Hands

Tryon Edwards (1866). “World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and Poetry”, p.236

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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.

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Powerful, Anecdotes, Argument

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.79, Ravenio Books

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Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

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Way, Digestion, Contemplation

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.239, Ravenio Books

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

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Wisdom, Past, Guidance

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.87, Ravenio Books

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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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Real, Needs, Speak

Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.356

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What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

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Giving, Lost, Left

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

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Inspirational, Character, Mind

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.67, Ravenio Books

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

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Evil, Easier, Results

Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1063, Ravenio Books

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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.

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Memories, Secret, Mind

Tryon Edwards (1962). “名人語錄”

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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

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Sympathy, Grief, Grieving

Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.295

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Died: 1894
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