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This world is the land of the dying the next is the land of the living.

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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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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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Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
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Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
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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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There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
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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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My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
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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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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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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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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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