Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Strong, Revenge, Human

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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Lives, Action, Eternity

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

Men, Courage, Opinion

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Hypocrisy, Flag, Signal

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

Faith, Great, History

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

Nature, True, Place

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Truth, Soul, Dwarfs

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

Life, Great, Best

The essence of justice is mercy.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Justice, Mercy, Essence

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

Great, Through, Darkness

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

Time, Snow, May

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Science, Fashion, Rather

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Often, Despair, Reckless

Neutral men are the devil's allies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Men, Devil, Neutral

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

Human, Soul, Show

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Truth, Poetry, True

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Father, Pride, Lies

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Gentleman, Vice, Brutal

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Heart, Diamond, Beneath

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Best, Life, True

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Cool, Heart, Fanatic

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Evil, Essential, Vice

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Hurt, Often, Makes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: 1814

Died: 1880

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