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1809–1894 United States
Tryon Edwards (7 August 1809 - 4 January 1894) was an American theologian, author. and minister of the Second Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut, from 1845 to 1857, after having served in Rochester, New York.
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Hell is truth seen too late — duty neglected in its season.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
Contemplation is to knowledge, what digestion is to food – the way to get life out of it.
Facts are God’s arguments : we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.
Deference is the instinctive respect which we pay to the great and good. The unconcious acknowledgement of the superiority or excellence of others.
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.
Temperance is to the body what religion is to the soul, the foundation and source of health and strength and peace.
The desires and longings of man are vast as eternity, and they point him to it.
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit ; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
This world is the land of the dying ; the next is the land of the living.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
Sense, brevity and point are the elements of a good proverb.
Fables, like parables, are more ancient than formal arguments and are often the most effective means of presenting and impressing both truth and duty.
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.
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