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Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them they give them power for good or evil they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

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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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