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Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Tryon Edwards

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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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Humans
Miseries
Many
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Anxiety
Misery

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