Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

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• Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
• Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
• Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
• At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and…
• Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
• Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
• An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to…
• Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
• No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
• The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
• No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
• Home is the seminary of all other institutions.
• There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
• Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the…
• The essence of justice is mercy.
• Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
• The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance…
• As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.
• Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The…
• Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

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