Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.

Darkness

Light

Wonder

A great many men – some comparatively small men now – if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

Columbus

Men

Would Be

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

Black

Life

Life Is

A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it–when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.

Mean

Spring

Wine

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon’s mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

Christian

Evil

Men

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them–as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself–into the grave, and is forgotten.

Men

Needs

Shells

A man’s love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father’s graves.

Father

Home

Lying

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

Blessing

Humble

Patient

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

Lying

Men

Opportunity

A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.

Morning

Night

Sacrifice

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Achievement

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Air

All Things

Amusement

Ancient

Angel

Animal

Answers

Appearance

Arteries

Beautiful

Beauty

Bed

Believe

Bills

Birth

Black

Blessed

Blessing

Bliss

Block

Blood

Book

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Brightness

Careers

Challenges

Character

Children

Christian

Christianity

Christmas

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Civilization

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Coins

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Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.

A great many men – some comparatively small men now – if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon’s mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them–as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself–into the grave, and is forgotten.

A man’s love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father’s graves.

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.

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