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Morality is but the vestibule of religion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Age: 65 †
Born: 1814
Born: December 29
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
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E. H. Chapin
Edwin Hubbell Rev. Chapin
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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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Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.
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Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
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If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.
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Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
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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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We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.
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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical
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Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.
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Let every man be free to act from his own conscience but let him remember that other people have consciences too and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others.
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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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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
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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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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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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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