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“Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Inspiring Quotes
#Good Life Quotes
#Inspirational Life Quotes
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“Do not judge from mere appearances...”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Judging Quotes
#Appearance Quotes
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“No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Mother Quotes
#Stars Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Inspirational Quotes
#Motivational Quotes
#Strength Quotes
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“Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Laughter Quotes
#Sadness Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“The essence of justice is mercy.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Essence Quotes
#Justice Quotes
#Mercy Quotes
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“Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Positive Quotes
#Inward Quotes
#Goodness Quotes
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“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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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Loyalty Quotes
#Simple Quotes
#Self Respect Quotes
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“O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Men Quotes
#Two Quotes
#Names Quotes
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“Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Death Quotes
#Secret Quotes
#Vitality Quotes
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“Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Selfish Quotes
#Honor Quotes
#Sensual Quotes
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“Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Men Quotes
#Looks Quotes
#Doing Nothing Quotes
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“Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Beautiful Quotes
#Death Quotes
#Kindness Quotes
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“Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Blood Quotes
#Sorrow Quotes
#Age Quotes
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“In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#World Quotes
#This World Quotes
#Importance Quotes
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“We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Fashion Quotes
#Moving Quotes
#Passion Quotes
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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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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Wine Quotes
#Glasses Quotes
#Gentleman Quotes
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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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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Wise Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Air Quotes
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“The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Moving Quotes
#Light Quotes
#Race Quotes
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“It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Forgiving Quotes
#Enemy Quotes
#Forget Quotes
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“Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Sublime Quotes
#Sorrow Quotes
#Christianity Quotes
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“We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Eden Quotes
#Victory Quotes
#Example Quotes
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“Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Distance Quotes
#Light Quotes
#Purple Quotes
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“There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Ocean Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Sea Quotes
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“The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Spiritual Quotes
#Civilization Quotes
#Cities Quotes
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“Conscience is its own readiest accuser.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Conscience Quotes
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“It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Giving Quotes
#Coins Quotes
#Bills Quotes
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“The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Wish Quotes
#Might Quotes
#Acorns Quotes
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“Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Looks Quotes
#World Quotes
#Saws Quotes
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“The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.”
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#Country Quotes
#Religious Quotes
#Cities Quotes
