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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
Wisdom
Past
Condensed
Instruction
Guidance
Present

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Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
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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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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.
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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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Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
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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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To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
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Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
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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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All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.
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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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Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
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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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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
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Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
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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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He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.
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Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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True art is reverent imitation of God.
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