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Tryon Edwards was an American theologian, best known for compiling A Dictionary of Thoughts, a book of quotations. He published the works of Jonathan Edwards in 1842. He also compiled and published the sixteen sermons of his great grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, on 1 Corinthians 13, the "Love Chapter", titling the book "Charity And Its Fruits; Christian love as manifested in the heart and life", which was thought by some to be the most thorough analysis of the text of 1 Corinthians 13 ever written. An original quote of Tryon Edwards is: “Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.” ~ Tryon Edwards

He was minister of the Second Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut, from 1845-1857, after having served in Rochester, New York.

Some representative entries from A Dictionary of Thoughts are:



"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."

"The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves—our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all."

"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."

"If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others."

"Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past."

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

✵ 7. Sierpień 1809 – 4. Styczeń 1894
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“The highest attainment, as well as enjoyment of the spiritual life, is to be able at all times and in all things to say, 'Thy will be done.”

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Źródło: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 550.

“The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.”

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Źródło: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 134.

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

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

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

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Źródło: 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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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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Źródło: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 88.

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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Źródło: 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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Źródło: 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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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

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

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

“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?”

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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.
Źródło: 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.
Źródło: 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.'
Źródło: 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.'
Źródło: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 115.

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