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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
American
Clergyman
About the author
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Life
#Loyalty
#Duty
#Theater
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.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Darkness
#Order
#Discovery
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Man
#Evil
#Vice
The essence of justice is mercy.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Justice
#Mercy
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Heart
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Life
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#People
#Heart
#World
#History
#Faith
#Skepticism
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Father
#Lies
#Pride
#Sin
#Devil
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Heart
#Truth
#Deep
#Poetry
#Oracle
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Will
#Hurt
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Infinite
#Achievement
#Soul
#Alliance
#Endurance
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Heart
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Soul
#Revenge
#Injury
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Men
#Devil
Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Despair
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Science
#Desire
#Fashion
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Action
#Will
#Eternity
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Truth
#Soul
#Bigotry
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Public
#Will
#World
#Men
#Opinion
#Courage
#Cowardice
#Public opinion
#Bravery
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Time
#May
#Earth
#Christian
#Heaven
#Snow
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#World
#Man
#Nature
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Hypocrisy
#Ostentation
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin,
American
Clergyman
#Vice
#Gentleman