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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 up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
By Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
By Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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.
By 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.
By Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
By Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
By 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.
By 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.
By Edwin Hubbell Chapin