Looks Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

8 Looks quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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When a historic author turns to visual perception, these eight short lines from Chapin give a concise, period‑appropriate glimpse.

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God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It…

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How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence;…

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A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee…

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Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

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Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the…

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of…

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Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look…

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Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through…

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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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No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows…

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It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

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Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The…

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There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is…

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