22+ Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Edwin Hubbell Chapin quotes and sayings.

Top 10 Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

1. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
2. Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
3. Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
4. Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
5. Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
6. Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
7. The essence of justice is mercy.
8. Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
9. No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
10. The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin Famous Quotes And Sayings

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 gates of Heaven. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

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. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin