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Tryon Edwards Quotes

«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.»
Author: Tryon Edwards (Theologian) | About: Power | Keywords: muscles
«Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them»
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Tryon Edwards (Theologian) | Keywords: Die in
«Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both»
«High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.»
Author: Tryon Edwards (Theologian) | Keywords: bring out
«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.»
«Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.»
«People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.»
«What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.»

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