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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.»
«Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.»
«Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it»
«We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
«Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
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appetite, forbidden, for the moment, poisoned, satisfy, sinful
«Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door»
«Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence»
«We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
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deficiencies, mental deficiency, spurs
«He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
«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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