Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes - Page 7

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• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

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  Indulge In, Clothes, Gentleman

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• The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

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  Moving, Light, Race

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• A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.

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  Morning, Sacrifice, Night

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• All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.

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  Summer, Rain, Flower

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• There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.

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  Death, Sweet, Children

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• Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

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  Political, Important, Entering

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• It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

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  God, Spiritual, Order

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• Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

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  Birth, Influence, Hours

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• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

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  Fashion, Men, Doubt

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

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• Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

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  Life, Character, Other Worlds

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• Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.

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  Men, Sky, Shining

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• It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

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  Mistake, Ancient, Social

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• Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

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  Blessing, Soul, Disguise

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

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  Sympathy, Flower, Roots

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• The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

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  Reading, Temptation, Pennies

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• It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.

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  Religious, Elements, Littles

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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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• Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

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  Truth, May, Logic

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• There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

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  Men, Play, Heaven

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• The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.

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  War, Blood, Names

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