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Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes: 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.
         

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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No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.



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Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.



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



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Neutral men are the devil's allies.



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Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.



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