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Tryon Edwards Quotes

American - Theologian | August 7, 1809 - January 4, 1894

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.

Grief Prosperity Content Own Give

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.

Good Power Doing Exercise Doing Good

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Belief Evidence Against Credulity

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

Choose Two Between Evils Both Goods

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.

Power Living Dead More Company Keep

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Age Health Men Grow Born Never

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Death Early Heaven Way Over Little

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

God Facts Never Be Careful Careful

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.

Men Youth Die Born Young Never

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.

Faith Science Said Sometimes Never

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

Lost Left Spent Gave Had

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Today Mistakes Opinion Wiser Never

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