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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 spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
May
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Spider
Firsts
Easily
Spiders
First
Soon
Repeated
Habit
Steel
Broken
Steady
Strength
Chains
Often
Allowed
Resisted
Form
Gains
Binds

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