Edwin Hubbell Chapin Short Quotes

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Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

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Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

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Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

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

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

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Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

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Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

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We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

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No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

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

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

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It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

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Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

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

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Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

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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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Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.

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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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We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

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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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Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

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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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Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

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

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There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

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The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

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Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

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