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The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.
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Temperance is to the body what religion is to the soul, the foundation and source of health and strength and peace.
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This world is the land of the dying ; the next is the land of the living.
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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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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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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.
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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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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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Credulity is belief on slight evidence, with no evidence, or or against evidence. In this sense it is the infidel, not the believer, who is credulous. 'The simple,' says Solomon, 'believeth every word.'
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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit : and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. — At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
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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 that wealth can give.
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Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
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Fables, like parables, are more ancient than formal arguments and are often the most effective means of presenting and impressing both truth and duty.
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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 of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
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The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.
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Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. – A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
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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 household.
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There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.
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It has been said that science is opposed to, and in conflict with revelation. But the history of the former shows that the greater its progress, and the more accurate its investigations and results, the more plainly it is seen not only not to clash with the latter, but in all things to confirm it. The very sciences from which objections have been brought against religion have, by their own progress, removed those objections, and in the end furnished full confirmation of the inspired Word of God.
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.
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The desires and longings of man are vast as eternity, and they point him to it.
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
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Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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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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Tryon Edwards
Born:
August 7, 1809
Died:
January 4, 1894
(aged 84)
Bio:
Tryon Edwards was an American theologian, best known for compiling A Dictionary of Thoughts, a book of quotations. He published the works of Jonathan Edwards in 1842.
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