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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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The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.
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Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.
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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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To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.
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Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.
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Do not judge from mere appearances.
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Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.
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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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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
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No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
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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.
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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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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
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Home is the seminary of all other institutions.
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Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
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It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.
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Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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