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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
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Teaching
Teacher
Inspiration
Waken
Education
Kindle
Teach
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Sure
Successfully
Interest
Enthusiasm
Business
Easily

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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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Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
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He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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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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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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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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To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own
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Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
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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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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.
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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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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
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Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.
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Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
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He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.
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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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