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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man’s moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
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 (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
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 (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite (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 (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
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 (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world’s heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
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 (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another’s doubt (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? (Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes)