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Misattributed to Tryon Edwards by a number of websites, thinkexist.com and quoteland.com among others. This quote does appear on p. 23 of Edwards' compilation, A Dictionary of Thoughts; however, it is clearly identified there as a quote by Hugh Blair, the Scottish author and preacher.
A genuine Tryon Edwards quote on the subject of anxiety appears above in the Sourced section ( from p. 22 of A Dictionary of Thoughts. )
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Misattributed to Tryon Edwards by a number of websites, thinkexist.com and quoteland.com among others. This quote does appear on p. 23 of Edwards' compilation, A Dictionary of Thoughts; however, it is clearly identified there as a quote by Hugh Blair, the Scottish author and preacher.
A genuine Tryon Edwards quote on the subject of anxiety appears above in the Sourced section ( from p. 22 of A Dictionary of Thoughts. )
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“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, pp. 11–12.

Men , Health , Age , Dependency

“Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past – the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 483.

World , Past , Future

“Abuse of any one generally shows that he has marked traits of character. The stupid and indifferent are passed by in silence.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 2

Stupidity , Silence , Indifference

Tryon Edwards Quotes

“Facts are God’s arguments : we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 162.

God

“Temperance is to the body what religion is to the soul, the foundation and source of health and strength and peace.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 567.

Health , Peace , Religion , Soul

“Have something to say; say it; and stop when you’ve done.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 51.

“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 26.

“He is one of the noblest conquerors who carries on a successful warfare against his own appetites and passions, and has them under wise and full control.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 512.

Passion , Success

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

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 103.

World

“Never be so brief as to become obscure.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 52.

“Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 562.

Way , Learning

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

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 253.

“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

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 465.

Books , Reading , Dead

“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

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 165.

Faith , Law , Nature , Science

“Deference is the instinctive respect which we pay to the great and good. The unconcious acknowledgement of the superiority or excellence of others.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 108.

“The desires and longings of man are vast as eternity, and they point him to it.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 29.

“True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 236.

God

“We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 83.

Evil

“Sense, brevity and point are the elements of a good proverb.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 452.

Sense

“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

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 416.

Death , Pleasure

“Fables, like parables, are more ancient than formal arguments and are often the most effective means of presenting and impressing both truth and duty.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 162.

Truth

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

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 438.

“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. – As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 152.

Nature , Evil

“Whatever the place allocated us by providence, that is for us 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

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 545; also reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 203.

God , Way

“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

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 88.

“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 68.

Evil

“Some men are born old, and some never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful we are always young, and at last die in youth, even when years would count us old.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 385.

Men , Youth

“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit : and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. — At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 212.

“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 that wealth can give.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 623.

Men , Children , Pleasure , Wealth

“Thoughts lead on to purposes; puposes go forth in actions; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, pp. 114-115.

“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

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 80.

Hope , Loss

“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 156.

People

“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

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 489.

Personality

“Credulity is belief on slight evidence, with no evidence, or or against evidence. In this sense it is the infidel, not the believer, who is credulous. 'The simple,' says Solomon, 'believeth every word.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 96.

Sense

“The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 456.

“Whatever the place allocated us by providence, that is for us the post of honor and duty.”

Tryon Edwards

God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 545; also reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 203.

“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit : and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength.”

Tryon Edwards

At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 212.