6 Quotes by Edwin Paxton Hood

  • Author Edwin Paxton Hood
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    Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

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    There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

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    The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

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    When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

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    Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can’t tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

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