Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes - Page 8

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• In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

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  Men, Evil, Cures

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

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  Life, Crucible, Life Is

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• There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

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  Self, World, Martyr

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• Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

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  Despair, Depth, Reckless

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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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• To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

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  Eye, Mystery, Splendid

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• How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.

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  Girl, Men, Careers

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• It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

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  Flower, Sunshine, Amusement

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• Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

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  Soil, Bliss, Felicity

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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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• It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

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  Sorrow, Mourn, Display

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• Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

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  Sympathy, Rose, Feelings

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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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• The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

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  Wine, Glasses, Gentleman

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• The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital heart of truth and love, beating with the life of Jesus, and sending abroad its sanctifying pulsations until nothing shall be common and unclean.

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  Jesus, Heart, Love Is

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• If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

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  Stones, Heavy, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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