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Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

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The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

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About Author
Edwin Hubbell Chapin (December 29, 1814 – 1880) 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.

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

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

Tags: best, life, true, most

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 Hubbel 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.

Tags: courage, men, world, opinion

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 Hubbel 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.

Tags: faith, history, great, heart

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.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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.

Tags: nature, self, acceptance

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Tags: poetry

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

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

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Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Tags: character, greatness

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Tags: strong, revenge, soul