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Morality is but the vestibule of religion.
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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
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It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.
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It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.
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Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.
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Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
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Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.
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Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.
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There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
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The essence of justice is mercy.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin