Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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• There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. Abnegation
• This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. Debases
• Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. Depth
• The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. Cool
• Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. Deep
• Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. Among
• Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. Consists
• Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul. Appear
• Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. Condition
• 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 stronger… Beauty
• Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it… Born
• A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there… Acceptance
• Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical Adversity
• Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Action
• This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. Debases
• Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Appearances
• Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious… Ache

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