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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
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Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
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To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
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The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.
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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
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To possess money is very well it may be a valuable servant to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
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Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
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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.
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The first evil choice or act is linked to the second and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
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Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.
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Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God morality is religion with its face toward the world.
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True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.
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One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
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Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
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