Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Edwin Hubbell Chapinwas an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
blood sorrow age
Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.
fashion moving heart
We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.
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A great many men--some comparatively small men now--if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.
taken opportunity men
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.
justice soul dwarfs
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
courage men bravery
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.
faith heart people
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
achievement soul endurance
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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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.
fall order ties
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.
death men soul
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
death higher conditions
Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
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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 the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.