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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
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Hartford
Connecticut
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Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
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To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin
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True art is reverent imitation of God.
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The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.
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Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.
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To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is still better.
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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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Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
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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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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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Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.
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Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
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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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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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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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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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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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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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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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