Quote by Tryon Edwards
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions

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

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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

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Education
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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

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Exaggeration
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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. – Tryon Edwards

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Death
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. – Proverb

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Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all — gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt, like moths in a flame. – Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. – Mary Baker Eddy

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Karma

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. – William Shakespeare

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