Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes - Page 5

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• Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

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  Truth, Truth Is

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• No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

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  Truth, Men, Darkness

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• Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

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  Sadness, Thinking, People

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• Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

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  Humility, Quality, Spirit

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• The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

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  Prayer, Men, Answers

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• I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.

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  Running, Lying, Rain

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• A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

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  Humble, Blessing, Patient

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• A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.

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  Men, Needs, Shells

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• Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

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  Nature, Men, Sea

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• The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

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  Mother, Prayer, Moving

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• We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

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  Marriage, Spiritual, Destiny

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• If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

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  Angel, Vision, Utterance

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• Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen.

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  Children, Home, Men

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• Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.

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  Men, Humanity, Criminals

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• A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.

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  Light, Darkness, Wonder

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• Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

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  Expression, Feelings, Humanity

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• There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

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  Soul, Tariffs, Commodity

  "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.

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• Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

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  Civilization, Mind, Progress

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• The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.

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  Truth, Inspiration, Gymnastics

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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.

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  Rotting, Arteries, Leafs

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• Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

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  Ideas, Glory

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• Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

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  Disappointment, Shadow, Sides

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

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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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  Sympathy, Rose, Feelings

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• Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.

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  Integrity, Character, Men

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• It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.

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  Angel, Home, Sorrow

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