Quotes from Tyron Edwards

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

Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

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.

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

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.

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Question: Is it Tyron or Tryon Edwards? There seems to be a discrepancy. What is meant by ill-desert or is this a typo?

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.

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread. They may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.