Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes - Page 6

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• The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.

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  Spiritual, Civilization, Cities

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• Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

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  Accusers, Conscience

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• It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

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  Giving, Coins, Bills

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• The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

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  Wish, Reform, May

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• The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

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  Country, Religious, Cities

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• There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

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  Thinking, Deceit, Misery

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.

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  Education, Quality, Doe

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• Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

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  World, Immortal Life, Action

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

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• The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

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  Flower, Future, Past

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• The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

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  Flower, Genius, Human Nature

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• It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

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  Believe, Gentleman, Difficult

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• No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

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  Spiritual, Humanity, Thrones

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.

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  Selfish, Sensual, Honor

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• Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

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  Men, Looks, Doing Nothing

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• Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

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  Blood, Sorrow, Age

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• Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

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  Spring, Men, Long

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• Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

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  Sublime, Sorrow, Christianity

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

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• O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!

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  Men, Names, Two

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• A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves.

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  Father, Lying, Home

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• It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

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  Forgiving, Enemy, Forget

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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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  Tombstone, Past, Long

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• We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

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  Practice, Heaven, Use

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• A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

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  Men, Would Be, Columbus

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

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• The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.

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  Mean, Men, Soul

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• The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

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  Men, Land, Lightning

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