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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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Dying
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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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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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