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

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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Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
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