Edwin Hubbell Chapin quotes - page 2

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. (Edwin Hubbell Chapin)
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. View quote
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. View quote
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. View quote
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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. View quote
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire; and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven. View quote
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Pride is the master sin of the devil. (Edwin Hubbell Chapin)
Do not ask if a man has been through college ask if a college has been through him if he is a walking university. View quote
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The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit. View quote
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The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation. View quote
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Motivation'Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. View quote
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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. View quote
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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. View quote
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