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Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
Truth
Neglected
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Seasons
Hell
Seen

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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
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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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The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
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True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.
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To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin
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He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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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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To possess money is very well it may be a valuable servant to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
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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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He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
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