Author » Chapin, Edwin Hubbel
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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.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
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.
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
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.