Edward Chapin quote: "The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation."

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles o...
EDWARD CHAPIN

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgiv...
EDWARD CHAPIN

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a s...
EDWARD CHAPIN

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of h...
EDWARD CHAPIN

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.
HARRY CHAPIN

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are n...
HARRY CHAPIN

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you'...
HARRY CHAPIN

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as w...
TOM CHAPIN

Those planes were not meant to fly without both engines. When they lost one, they couldn't keep thei...
DOLORIA CHAPIN

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for re...
TOM CHAPIN

When in doubt do something.
HARRY CHAPIN

Cotton Patch Gospel, ... The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John.
HARRY CHAPIN

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are
HARRY CHAPIN

We're both running in the same race together. We both work so hard to get people to come to Chattano...
BILL CHAPIN

She knows more of love than the poets can say,And her eyes offer something that won't go away.
HARRY CHAPIN

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep th...
HARRY CHAPIN

My son turned 10 just the other day. He said, 'Thanks for the ball, dad, come on let's play - Can yo...
HARRY CHAPIN

I came in with questions about insurance, and they told me my husband was eligible for medals. He ne...
DOLORIA CHAPIN

There's a lot of evidence that some of those fears are coming to pass.
DOUG CHAPIN

There's a lot of evidence that some of those fears are coming to pass. The theory that new technolog...
DOUG CHAPIN

Any of those races that hinge on a real or alleged error could throw us into the same kind of electo...
DOUG CHAPIN

Florida has always been the poster-child for reform, first in a bad way in 2000 but then in a good w...
DOUG CHAPIN

The possibility for error, and the willingness of people to challenge those errors, are both growing...
DOUG CHAPIN

In voting technology, the pace of innovation was outpacing the regulation.
DOUG CHAPIN

Poll workers are a crucial element of the election process. You can buy new machines, you can educat...
DOUG CHAPIN

There is a potential for chaos. Can't predict where it'll be, but there is definitely potential.
DOUG CHAPIN

There may be something. But I'm not aware of another race that's still pending out there.
DOUG CHAPIN

When in doubt, do something.
HARRY CHAPIN

Each plane was making two or three missions a day. Some of them were just terrible. They were gettin...
DOLORIA CHAPIN

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan ...
TOM CHAPIN

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.
HARRY CHAPIN

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.
TOM CHAPIN

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its al...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connect...
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected...
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narro...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowa...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The grea...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

The essence of justice is mercy.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simpl...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its al...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an indiv...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam,...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world ~~ Can hear the stars up in the sky whisperi...
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Neutral men are the devil's allies.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a se...
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injur...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a gold...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The ...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the j...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Neutral men are the devil's allies.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 Every action of our lives touches o...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cow...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injur...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of h...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowa...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like t...
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The grea...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

The essence of justice is mercy.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam,...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Camp...
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narro...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD

The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD

Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
ROY D. CHAPIN JR.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...
EDWARD HOPPER

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea...
EDWARD HOPPER

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...
EDWARD HOPPER

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
EDWARD HOPPER

More of me comes out when I improvise.
EDWARD HOPPER

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
EDWARD BOND

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l...
EDWARD LEAR

The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT

I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD

I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK

He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG

All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE

Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG

The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG

Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG

One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN

I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON

The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
EDWARD ZWICK

Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK

It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
EDWARD FITZGERALD

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
EDWARD ZWICK

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG

When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
EDWARD YOUNG

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
EDWARD GIBBON

Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whate...
EDWARD YOUNG

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
EDWARD YOUNG

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN

Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG

And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ...
EDWARD FLAHERTY

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT

For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
EDWARD YOUNG

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
EDWARD ABBEY

كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از...
EDWARD SAID

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig...
EDWARD EVERETT

A God all mercy is a God unjust.
EDWARD YOUNG

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei...
EDWARD VARESE

It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ...
EDWARD GIBBON

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.

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The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.

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