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"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."
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Tryon EdwardsFables, like parables, are more ancient than formal arguments and are — Tryon Edwards
"Fables, like parables, are more ancient than formal arguments and are often the most effective means of presenting and impressing both truth and duty."
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Tryon Edwards was an American theologian, minister of the Second Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut, from 1845 to 1857, after having served in Rochester, New York. He was best known for his collection of quotations, A Dictionary of Thoughts, a book of quotations, for his compilation of the sixteen sermons of his great grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, on 1 Corinthians 13 as Charity And
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"Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong."
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"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."
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"Temperance is to the body what religion is to the soul, the foundation and source of health and strength and peace."
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"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. – As Lessing says, Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever."
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"Have something to say ; say it ; and stop when you’ve done."
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