American - Clergyman | 1814 - 1880
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Neutral men are the devil's allies.
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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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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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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
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The essence of justice is mercy.
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
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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.
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
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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.
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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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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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