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What we gave, we have What we spent, we had What we left, we lost.

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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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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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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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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
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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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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
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The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
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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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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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Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.
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He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
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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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Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
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Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
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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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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
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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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