Top 100 Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes
#1. The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.
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#2. It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.
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#3. No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
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#4. Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
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#5. Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust.
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#6. Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
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#7. Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
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#10. Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
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#11. Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
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#13. A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.
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#15. Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. 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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#20. Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;
it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.
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#21. No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.
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#22. It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.
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#23. The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.
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#24. We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.
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#25. The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.
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#27. A great many men
some comparatively small men now
if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.
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#28. 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.
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#29. As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.
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#30. The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.
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#31. Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
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#33. Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.
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#34. Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.
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#35. We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.
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#36. It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.
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#37. 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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#39. The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
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#40. No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
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#41. Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.
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#42. There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul
to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.
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#45. Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.
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#46. Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen.
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#48. Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.
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#49. Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
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#50. A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them
as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself
into the grave, and is forgotten.
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#51. However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.
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#52. The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.
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#53. How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.
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#54. The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.
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#55. No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.
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#56. The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.
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#57. It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.
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#59. Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration
the secret alembics of vitality.
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#62. Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.
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#63. It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.
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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. Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.
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#66. There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
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#67. It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.
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#73. 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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#74. Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!
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#75. Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
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#76. Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.
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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.
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#81. The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.
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#82. There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
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#83. 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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#84. Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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#85. Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being
positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.
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#86. 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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#87. It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.
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#88. Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
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#89. The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.
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#90. Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.
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#91. I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.
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#92. 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.
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#93. 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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#94. Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?
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#96. Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
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#97. If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.
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#98. No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
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#99. All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,
as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.
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