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Edwin Hubbel Chapin

219 quotes in 1336 categories

Edwin Hubbel Chapin’s verses weave together gentle encouragement and thoughtful observation. Across more than two hundred entries, his language steadies the mind, offering quiet reassurance and moments of calm introspection.

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin was an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie.

Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

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Age

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This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

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Essential

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Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

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Afraid

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

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Good life

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Neutral men are the devil's allies.

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Allies

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The essence of justice is mercy.

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Compassion

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Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

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Character

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Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

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Accuser

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Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

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Forgiveness

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It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a…

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Bills

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Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

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Advantage

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Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

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Default

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It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

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Display

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It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

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Believe

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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

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Calories

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Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

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Bliss

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A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of…

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Dies

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A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to…

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Deeper

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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.…

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Attainment

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Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every…

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Action

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A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of…

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Creation

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If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels,…

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Angel

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A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour…

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Affection

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Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a…

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Anarchy

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Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and…

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Arms

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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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Astronomy

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The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure…

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Answers

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What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so…

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Capability

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The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have…

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Church

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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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Accumulation

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Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast…

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Age

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Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement,…

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Age

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Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and…

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Aspiration

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The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in…

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Bars

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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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Age

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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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Action

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Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life…

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Blank

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The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive…

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Achievement

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God is the explanation of all things.

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All things

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Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

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Conditions

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin by topic

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