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

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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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
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Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.
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Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
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Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.
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A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.
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A life is black, whiten it as you will.
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