Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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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... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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The essence of justice is mercy... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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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... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does.. view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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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... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches.. view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Neutral men are the devil's allies... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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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 steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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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 heaven... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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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 as easily as a star... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman... view

By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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