Quote by Tryon Edwards
To rejoice in anothers prosperity is to give content to your lot;

To rejoice in anothers prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate anothers grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. – Tryon Edwards

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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

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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. – Tryon Edwards

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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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I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Philippians 4:11 – Bible

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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. – Thomas Fuller

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Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. – Proverb

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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. – Joseph Addison

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