"Objects close to the eye shut out much……" — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"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 is with people who sometimes cover the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust."
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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67 Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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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.…
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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…
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with…
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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are…
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Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into…
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to…
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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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