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Tryon Edwards: Frasi in inglese
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 550.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 162.
“The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.”
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 438.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 152.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 545; also reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 203.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 88.
“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 68.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 385.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 212.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 623.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, pp. 114-115.
Misattributed to Tryon Edwards by a number of websites, thinkexist.com and quoteland.com among others. This quote does appear on p. 23 of Edwards' compilation, A Dictionary of Thoughts; however, it is clearly identified there as a quote by Hugh Blair, the Scottish author and preacher.
A genuine Tryon Edwards quote on the subject of anxiety appears above in the Sourced section ( from p. 22 of A Dictionary of Thoughts. )
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Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 80.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 156.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 489.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 33.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 497.
“The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.”
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 456.
Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
Misattributed to Tryon Edwards by a number of websites, thinkexist.com and quoteland.com among others. This quote does appear on p. 23 of Edwards' compilation, A Dictionary of Thoughts; however, it is clearly identified there as a quote by Hugh Blair, the Scottish author and preacher.
A genuine Tryon Edwards quote on the subject of anxiety appears above in the Sourced section ( from p. 22 of A Dictionary of Thoughts. )
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“Whatever the place allocated us by providence, that is for us the post of honor and duty.”
God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 545; also reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 203.
“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit : and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength.”
At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 212.
As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.'
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 152.
'He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little.'
Origine: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 115.
