Edwin Paxton Hood (1820–1885) was an English nonconformist divine and author. He wrote biographies of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Emanuel Swedenborg, William Wordsworth, Thomas Binney, Isaac Watts, Thomas Carlyle, Christmas Evans, and Oliver Cromwell.
Born in Westminster, London, Hood began to lecture on temperance and peace about 1840, and entered the ministry in 1852. He served congregations in North Nibley-Gloucestershire, Islington, Brighton, and Manchester.
A strong liberal, Hood resigned his charge in 1880 after political differences with his congregation. After a visit to America, he became pastor of the Falcon Square Church in London.
As well as his biographies, Hood wrote The Vocation of the Preacher (1886.)
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There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
—Edwin Paxton Hood
When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
—Edwin Paxton Hood
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
—Edwin Paxton Hood
Topics: Books, Reading
Of all the know-nothing persons in this world, commend us to the man who has “never known a day’s illness.” He is a moral dunce, one who has lost the greatest lesson of life; who has skipped the finest lecture in that great school of humanity, the sick-chamber.
—Edwin Paxton Hood
Topics: Sickness
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