A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.
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 servit… - Edwin Hubbel 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 servit…
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
Do not judge from mere appearances. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Do not judge from mere appearances.
The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.
Impatience never commanded success. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Impatience never commanded success.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distru… - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distru…
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