Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes - Page 4

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• God is the explanation of all things.

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  God, Explanation, All Things

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• There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

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  Pride, Self, Self Respect

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• No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

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  Christian, Jesus, Heart

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• As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

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  Pride, Flesh, Environment

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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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• Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.

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  Beautiful, God, Running

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• Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

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  Xenophobia, Justice, Diversity

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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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• Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

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  Morality

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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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• Neutral men are the devil's allies.

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  Men, Democracy, Devil

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

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  Life, Happiness, Home

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

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  Heart, Wool, Jewelry

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• We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!

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  Death, Father, Sea

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• Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

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  Fall, Ties, Discovery

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• It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.

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  Death, Dust, Soul

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• An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

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  Christian, Time, Snow

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• Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

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  Achievement, Soul, Endurance

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• Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

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  Faith, Heart, People

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• At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

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  Courage, Men, Bravery

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• He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.

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  Men, Years, People

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