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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
Past
Condensed
Instruction
Guidance
Present
Wisdom

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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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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.
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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
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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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Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
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Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.
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Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
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He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.
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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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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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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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Between two evils, choose neither between two goods, choose both.
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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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Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?
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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
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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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Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
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Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
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