Earth Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

9 Earth quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin’s verses treat the planet as a moral canvas. In nine concise pieces, he blends spiritual counsel with observations of nature’s quiet teachings.

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We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is…

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which…

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It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should…

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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the…

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Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones…

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It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to…

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Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing…

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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the…

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The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our…

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In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of…

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Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what…

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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

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Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses…

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Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

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Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

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A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings…

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There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

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Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

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The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech…

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