"This is the essential evil of vice: it…" — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man."

— 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.
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.…
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been…
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with…
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are…
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into…
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to…
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.

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Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both. — Edward Abbey
We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character. — Epictetus
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which… — Horace Mann
Virtue debases itself in justifying itself. — Voltaire
A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say… — David O. McKay
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it. — Luc de Clapiers
The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. — Mary Astell
A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. — Elie Wiesel
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit. — David Mamet
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. — Simone Weil
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is… — David Mamet

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