Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes
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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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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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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
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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…
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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 faith.
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
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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 are nearest to…
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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.
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
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No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
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Home is the seminary of all other institutions.
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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
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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 sadness, and the…
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The essence of justice is mercy.
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
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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…
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As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.
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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 beautiful harmony. The…
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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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