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A life is black, whiten it as you will.
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
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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.
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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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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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Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.
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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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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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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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If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.
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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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It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.
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For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.
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Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
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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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Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor.
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