Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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Quotes by Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

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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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• 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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• A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

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

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

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• Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

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• It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.

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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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• Goodness consists not in outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

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

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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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• Neutral men are the devil's allies.

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• This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

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