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Quote by Tryon Edwards
To rejoice in anothers prosperity is to give content to your lot;

To rejoice in anothers prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate anothers grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. – Tryon Edwards

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. 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. – Tryon Edwards

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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

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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. – Benjamin Franklin

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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. – John Bunyan

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Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. – G. K. Chesterton

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For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. St. Paul In Philippians 4:11 – Bible

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