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Tryon Edwards
Tryon Edwards
American Theologian
Born: Aug 7, 1809
Died: Jan 4, 1894
Born First Great Old Own Use
Related authors: Ernest Holmes Howard Thurman Huston Smith John Gresham Machen Mary Baker Eddy Mary Daly Reinhold Niebuhr Stanley Hauerwas
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. Tryon Edwards
Death Pleasures Poisoned Like Sinful Forbidden End May Bread Them Moment Appetite Satisfy
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. Tryon Edwards
Strength Broken Spider First Easily Web Steady Steel Habit Through Allowed Soon Repeated Any May Often Gains Forms Us Act Chains Binds Resisted
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. Tryon Edwards
Good Power Increase Must Take Sure Exercise Doing Doing Good Being Means Use Muscles
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
Death Way Weep Taken Over Infants May Heaven Little Shortest Us Grave Graves Early
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
Happiness You Sunshine Will Own Duty Find Follow Seek Shadow Sake
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. Tryon Edwards
Power Living Books More More Power Dead Read Very Than Often Should Company Keep Careful
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. Tryon Edwards
Hope Good Ending Sacrifice Too Compromise Both Retaining Another Loss Often Right
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. Tryon Edwards
Grief Prosperity Own Give Alleviate Another Content Mitigate Lot Your Dispel Rejoice
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! Tryon Edwards
Ignorance Omniscient Would Would-Be Mystery Perfectly Name Another Were Plain
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. Tryon Edwards
Enthusiasm Way Easily Kindle Sure Sure Way Interest Successfully Teach

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