Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes - Page 9

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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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• Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust.

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  Nature, Sleep, Dust

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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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• 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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• 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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• The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

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  Strong, Conflict, Weak

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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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• 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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• 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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• Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

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  Nature, Blood, Law

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• The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.

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  Tired, Night, Light

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• God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

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  Heart, Men, Wish

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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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• God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

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  God, Morning, Eye

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