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True art is reverent imitation of God.

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
Reverent
Imitation
Art
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The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.
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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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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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Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
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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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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
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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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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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Between two evils, choose neither between two goods, choose both.
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To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
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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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One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
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He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
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He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.
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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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