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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
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Hartford
Connecticut
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True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
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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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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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Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
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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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Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
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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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Preventives of evil are far better than remedies cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
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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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Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
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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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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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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
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Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
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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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The first evil choice or act is linked to the second and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny
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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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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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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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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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