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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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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
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Life
Digestion
Contemplation
Food
Knowledge

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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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Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
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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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We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
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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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Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.
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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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We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.
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Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
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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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Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.
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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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True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.
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Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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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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One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
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No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
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