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Action(s)
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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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Adversity
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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
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Age
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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.
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Bravery
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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.
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Doubt
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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
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Endurance
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
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Fashion
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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Forgiveness
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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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Happiness
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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
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Individuality
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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.
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Justice
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The essence of justice is mercy.
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Loyalty
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No more important 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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Motivational
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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
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Opportunity
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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.
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Poetry
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
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Prejudice
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
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Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
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Prophecy
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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.
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Suffering
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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Understanding
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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.
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Vanity
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
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Books by and about Edwin Hubbell Chapin