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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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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
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Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
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This world is the land of the dying the next is the land of the living.
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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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Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
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To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own
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Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.
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A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.
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True art is reverent imitation of God.
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Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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