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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
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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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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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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
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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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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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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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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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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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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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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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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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