Quotes by E. H. Chapin

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars.””

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

“Tidak pernah jiwa manusia tampil begitu kuat seperti saat mereka mengurungkan balas dendam dan berani memaafkan.””

“The soul which fathoms every league of the celestial arc--knows, as a mariner the sea, the distant latitudes where comets flame, and worlds career, and constellations shake their awful clusters--wanders amid the spectral nebula, and makes suns and systems to be but glittering beads upon the aspiring thread of its induction, cannot perish. There is a future life. In a universe so spherical and whole as this, reason argues that its own incompleteness and capacity for more are suggestive--are prophetical. Under-shadows and cross-lights of mystery, these filmy depths of present being, shudder in sympathy with something beyond.””

“Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.””