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Edwin Hubbel Chapin [1814-1880] American
Rank: 103
Clergyman, Poet


Edwin Hubbell Chapin was 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.

Best, Cool, Courage, Faith, Forgiveness, History, Men, Poetry, Science

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
101
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
102
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
103
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
104
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. Forgiveness
105
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
106
Neutral men are the devil's allies. Men
107
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. Best
108
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
109
Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
110
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. Faith, History
111
The essence of justice is mercy.
112
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
113
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
114
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
115
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. Poetry
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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Science
117
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.
118
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.
119
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
120
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. Cool
121
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.
122
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
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