People Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

8 People quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin’s eight concise reflections on people capture his thoughtful, ‑era sensibility. The short list provides a quick window into his measured, reflective take on human nature.

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Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of…

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He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares…

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Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and…

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Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after…

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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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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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I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it,…

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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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