Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes - Page 9

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• Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

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  Growing Up, Progress, Soil

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• The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

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  Angel, May, Spheres

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• It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

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  Truth, Men, Bed

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• However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

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  Faith, Logical, Ends

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• In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart-in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.

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  Faith, Fall, Believe

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• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

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  Indulge In, Gentleman, Vices

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• The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

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  Heart, Fanatics, Slippery

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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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• 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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• How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

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  Names, Looks, Debt

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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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• When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.

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  Jesus, Taken, Inspiration

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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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• Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

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  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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