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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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There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
Have something to say ; say it ; and stop when you’ve done.
Thoughts lead on to purposes ; puposes go forth in actions ; actions form habits ; habits decide character ; and character fixes our destiny.
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
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.
God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.
Some men are born old, and some never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful we are always young, and at last die in youth, even when years would count us old.
Ridicule may be the evidence of wit or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.
Abuse of any one generally shows that he has marked traits of character. The stupid and indifferent are passed by in silence.
The highest attainment, as well as enjoyment of the spiritual life, is to be able at all times and in all things to say, 'Thy will be done.'
Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past – the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.
Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path, and none can say where the descent will end. – 'He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little.'
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.
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.
He is one of the noblest conquerors who carries on a successful warfare against his own appetites and passions, and has them under wise and full control.
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kind of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
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