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“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.”

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

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

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

“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?”

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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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“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.

“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.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 22.

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

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

“Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“The leaves in autumn do not change color from the blighting touch of frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit is ripened, and their work is done. And their splendid coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man. And 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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Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 33.

“Ridicule may be the evidence of wit or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.”

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Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 497.

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

Tryon Edwards

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

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Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
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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“Whatever the place allocated us by providence, that is for us the post of honor and duty.”

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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.”

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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.

“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.”

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As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.'
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 152.

“Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path, and none can say where the descent will end.”

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'He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little.'
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 115.