Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on th… - Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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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

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin (December 29, 1814 – December 26, 1880) was a Universalist minister who became famed as an orator in the 1840s.

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Alternative Names: E. H. Chapin • Edwin Hubbell Rev. Chapin

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