Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

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

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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  Tags in People, Skepticism, World

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

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  Tags in Profaneness, Brutal, Vice

• 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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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Human, Grandeur

• Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

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  Topics in Soul, Truth

  Tags in Bigotry

• Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth – the true poet is very near the oracle.

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Poetry, Heart

• Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

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  Tags in Ostentation, Signals, Flag, Hypocrisy

• Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Human, Strong

• No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Theater, Loyalty, Best, Convictions

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

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  Tags in Gaiety, Depths, Despair

• Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

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  Tags in Fashion, Science, Appearance

• 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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  Tags in Christian, Nearest, Heaven

• Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

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  Tags in Pride, Master, Devil

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

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  Tags in Heart, Blithe, Bosom, Dances

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

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  Tags in Creed, True, Saint

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

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  Tags in Heart, Downright, Fanatic, Things

• The essence of justice is mercy.

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  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Essence

• This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

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  Tags in Essential, Evil

• 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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  Tags in Discovery

• Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

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  Tags in Tribulation, Hurt, Yourself

Edwin Hubbell Chapin (23)

Birth:	29th December, 1814
Death:	1880
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Pastor, Poet

About

Edwin Hubbell Chapin was born in Union Village, Washington County, New York. He was an American preacher. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie.

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