Top 160 Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

52. “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.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

53. “A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.”

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54. “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

55. “Morality is but the vestibule of religion.”

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56. “The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.”

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57. “Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.”

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58. “We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.”

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59. “A man’s love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father’s graves.”

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60. “Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.”

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61. “In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.”

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62. “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.”

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63. “Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth – the true poet is very near the oracle.”

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64. “There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child’s face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.”

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65. “God’s work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man’s will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.”

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66. “The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.”

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67. “Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.”

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68. “Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.”

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69. “As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.”

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70. “Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.”

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71. “There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.”

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72. “Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity – its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.”

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73. “Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.”

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74. “The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.”

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75. “Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.”

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76. “It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.”

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77. “Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.”

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78. “The essence of justice is mercy.”

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79. “If one’s conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.”

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80. “Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God’s truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.”

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81. “Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.”

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82. “It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.”

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83. “Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?”

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84. “No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.”

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85. “Conscience is its own readiest accuser.”

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86. “Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.”

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87. “Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?”

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88. “Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.”

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89. “Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.”

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90. “For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death’s seal is set.”

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91. “I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.”

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92. “However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.”

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

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94. “O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!”

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95. “A great many men – some comparatively small men now – if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.”

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96. “How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.”

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97. “Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.”

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98. “The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.”

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99. “Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.”

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100. “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.”

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