Quote by Tryon Edwards
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. – Tryon Edwards

Other quotes by Tryon Edwards

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

Category:
Karma
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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spiders web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. – Tryon Edwards

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strength
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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. – Tryon Edwards

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Happiness
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Other Quotes from
AIDS
category

From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone. – Barbara Ehrenreich

Category:
AIDS

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. – Susan Sontag

Category:
AIDS

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. – Joel Hawes

Category:
AIDS

The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our countrys immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically. – Barbra Streisand

Category:
AIDS

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Too many women throw themselves into romance because theyre afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I wont do that. – Julie Delpy

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Romantic

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. – Taslima Nasrin

Category:
Freedom

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. – Oscar Wilde

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best

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth. – Antonin Artaud

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Language