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Tryon Edwards
 Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic |
| Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic |
| Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result |
| Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. |
| 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. |
| Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. |
| Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong |
| Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong |
| Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. |
| 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. |
| Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning |
| Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths |
| The best performance improvement is the transition from the non-working state to the working state. |
| 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 |
| The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all |
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