Quote

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

Tryon Edwards

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
Crime
Truly
Slanderer
Dagger
Brother
Assassin
Character
Daggers
Body
Assassins
Murder
Tongue

More quotes by Tryon Edwards

Image
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
Tryon Edwards
Image
True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.
Tryon Edwards
Image
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
Tryon Edwards
Image
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.
Tryon Edwards
Image
To possess money is very well it may be a valuable servant to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Tryon Edwards
Image
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
Tryon Edwards
Image
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them they give them power for good or evil they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.
Tryon Edwards
Image
He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.
Tryon Edwards