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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Tryon Edwards
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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
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Connecticut
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Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
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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.
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Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.
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He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
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Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.
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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
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There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.
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Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
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Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
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If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.
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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
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Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - Agnostic is but the Greek for ignoramus.
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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
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Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
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Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
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All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.
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No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
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True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
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Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
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Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?
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