Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.
Tryon Edwards
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
Give
Highest
Giving
Wealth
Children
Share
Good
Rich
Would
Pleasure
Men
Living
Others
Shrouds
Remember
Pockets
More quotes by Tryon Edwards
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tryon Edwards
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
Tryon Edwards
Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
Tryon Edwards
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
Tryon Edwards
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
Tryon Edwards
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.
Tryon Edwards
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.
Tryon Edwards
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.
Tryon Edwards
Between two evils, choose neither between two goods, choose both.
Tryon Edwards
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
Tryon Edwards
Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
Tryon Edwards
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
Tryon Edwards
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
Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tryon Edwards
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
Tryon Edwards
Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
Tryon Edwards
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
Tryon Edwards
Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
Tryon Edwards
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards
The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
