"Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man."

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Nature Quotes #Men Quotes #Sea Quotes

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”
“Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.”
“Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.”

Source : "Interview with Rep. Lloyd Doggett". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2009.
“If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left?”
“The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the one thing I've been trying to contribute. I still write things outside of architecture - not really fiction, but not nonfiction. I like dialogue as a form, because the text is only the trace of an action. The consequential information is carried in the action you choose to put on that text.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.”
“They may not know what I'm doing, but they know I'm doing something!”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It seems that when the back of greed is broken, the human spirit soars into regions of unselfishness. I believe that it is safe to say there can be no continuous revival without 'hilarious' giving. And I fear no contradiction: wherever there is 'hilarious' giving there will soon be revival!”

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