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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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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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Mystery is but another name for ignorance if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
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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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Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.
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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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Between two evils, choose neither between two goods, choose both.
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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
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Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.
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Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
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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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Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
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There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.
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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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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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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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Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
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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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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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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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