https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 19 May 2026 16:54:56 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/29074/ https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/29074/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:25:49 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29074 Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880) American clergyman
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Quoted in Charles Northend, Memory Gems (1890).

Variant: "Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." ["Advice to the Young," quoted in Charles W. Sanders, Sanders' Union Fourth Reader (1873)] ]]> https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/29074/feed/ 0 29074 https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/48578/ https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/48578/#respond Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:45:12 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=48578 Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880) American clergyman
Discourses on the Beatitudes, ch. 2 “The Blessing of the the Mourners” (1853)
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Preaching on Matthew 5:4. Frequently misattributed to Kahlil Gibran, after it was incorrectly included in The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran (1995). ]]> https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/48578/feed/ 0 48578 https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/662/ https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/662/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=662 Neutral men are the devil’s allies.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880) American clergyman
Living Words (1860)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/662/feed/ 0 662 https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/43108/ https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/43108/#respond Fri, 04 Sep 2020 16:14:07 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43108 I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880) American clergyman
Living Words (1860)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/43108/feed/ 0 43108 https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/43178/ https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/43178/#respond Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:22:08 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43178 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 (1814-1880) American clergyman
Living Words (1860)
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Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880) American clergyman
Living Words (1860)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/43306/feed/ 0 43306 https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/43401/ https://wist.info/chapin-edwin-hubbel/43401/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:29:14 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43401 Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880) American clergyman
Living Words (1860)
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Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880) American clergyman
Living Words (1860)
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