Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Man Quotes

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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.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin