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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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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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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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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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Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.
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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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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
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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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There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.
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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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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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Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
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He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.
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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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Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
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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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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
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