Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes - Page 6

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• Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

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  Men, Shoes, Heaven

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• To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

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  Eye, Mystery, Splendid

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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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• Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

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  Blood, Sorrow, Age

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• We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

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  Fashion, Moving, Passion

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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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• Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor.

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  Wise, Men, Air

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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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• We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

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  Faith, Honesty, Doubt

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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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• 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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• Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

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  Truth, Law, Progress

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• Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

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  Despair, Depth, Reckless

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• How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.

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  Girl, Men, Careers

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• There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

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  Self, World, Martyr

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• Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

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  Distance, Light, Purple

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

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• The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

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  Children, Spring, Grief

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

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• A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

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  Christian, Men, Evil

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• The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

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  Christmas, Sweet, Heart

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• In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

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  Men, Evil, Cures

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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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