Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

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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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  Beauty, Mom, Mother

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  Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

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  Inspiring, Karma, Good Life

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Do not judge from mere appearances.

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  Judging, Jewelry, Appearance

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• Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.

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  Block, Real, Lying

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• Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

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  Lying, Light, Land

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• There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

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  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

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• Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

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  Courage, Strong, Revenge

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

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  Inspirational, Positive, Inward

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

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  Evil, Overcoming, Way

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• Impatience never commanded success.

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  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

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  Hurt, Failure, Adversity

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• The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.

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  Keys, Hands, Skills

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• The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

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  Taken, Opportunity, Men

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• In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

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  Passion, Evil, Secret

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• If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.

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  Ocean, Inspiration, Heart

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• No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

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  Men, Conviction, Knows

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• The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.

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  Exercise, Soul, Selfishness

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

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  Weakness, Misery, Shame

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• Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

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  Death, Secret, Decay

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• Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

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  Stars, Moon, Light

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• The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. The vapor climbs the sunbeam, and comes back in blessings upon the exhausted herb. The exhalation of the plant is wafted to the ocean. And so goes on the beautiful commerce of nature. And all because of dissimilarity--because no one thing is sufficient in itself, but calls for the assistance of something else, and repays by a contribution in turn.

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  Beautiful, Ocean, Blessing

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• Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.

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  Book, Mirrors, Dust

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• No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

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  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

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  Men, Jaundice, Littles

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