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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – 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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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spiders web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. – Tryon Edwards

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