Author » Chapin, Edwin Hubbel
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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.
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
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.