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The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
Usefulness
Discipline
Others
Life

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Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
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He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.
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Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
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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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Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
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The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.
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Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
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Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
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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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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.
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Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.
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