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Tryon Edwards

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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.


— Tryon Edwards


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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.


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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.


— Tryon Edwards


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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.


— Tryon Edwards


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What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.


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Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.


— Tryon Edwards


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] He publiTryon Edwardsd the works of Jonathan Edwards (the younger) in 1842. Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) was an American theologian best known for compiling "A Dictionary of Thoughts" a book of quotations. ".

[But see note in Talk section. He also compiled and publiTryon Edwardsd the sixteen sermons of his great great grandfather Jonathan Edwards on 1 Corinthians 13 the "Love Chapter" titling the book "Charity And Its Fruits; Christian love as manifested in the heart and life" which thought by some[citation needed] to be the most thorough analysis of the text of 1 Corinthians 13 ever written. But all science in fact rests on a basis of faith for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

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