Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Ideas, Age

• There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Happiness, Home

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• The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

• 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.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

• Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Crucible, Life Is

• Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Heart, Men

• 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?

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Character, Other Worlds

• A life is black, whiten it as you will.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Black, Life Is

• Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Opportunity, Goal

• Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Yield, Higher

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