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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.

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.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

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.

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.

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