"The best men are not those who have……" — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"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 the servitor."
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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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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged,…
— Sun Tzu
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How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra.…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold…
— George Downame
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The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but…
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
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Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss…
— George Lois
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Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an…
— Christiane Amanpour
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At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever…
— Sean Parker
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Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician,"…
— Blaise Pascal
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This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra……
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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