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Quotes from Edwin Hubbel Chapin


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    The essence of justice is mercy.

    Justice | Mercy | Essence


    Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

    Hypocrisy | Flag | Signal


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

    Evil | Vice | Essential


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

    Cool | Heart | Fanatic


    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.

    Great | Darkness | Discovery


    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.

    Time | Snow | Earth


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

    Father | Pride | Devil


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

    Truth | Poetry | Deep


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

    Life | Best | Great


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

    Science | Fashion | Desire


    Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

    Truth | Soul | Dwarfs


    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.

    Nature | Star | Swings


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

    Hurt | Sour | Unless


    Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

    Soul | Endurance | Alliance


    Neutral men are the devil's allies.

    Men | Devil | Neutral


    Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

    Ripple | Despair | Reckless


    Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

    Life | Action | Eternity


    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.

    Courage | Men | Bravery


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

    Forgiveness | Strong | Revenge


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

    Best | Life | Creed


       

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