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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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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
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Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.
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If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.
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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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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.
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Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
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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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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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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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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 rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own
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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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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
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True art is reverent imitation of God.
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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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Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
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