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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
True

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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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Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
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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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Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
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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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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - Agnostic is but the Greek for ignoramus.
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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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Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
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Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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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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Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
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Preventives of evil are far better than remedies cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
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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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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.
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