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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 a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

— Edwin Hubbell Chapin Living Words (1860)

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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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Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.

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Pride is the master-sin of the devil; and the devil is the father of lies.

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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a Home.

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time on his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven.

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