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Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life? — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Neutral men are the devil's allies. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad — Mary Chapin Carpenter

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose. — Harry Chapin

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing. — Harry Chapin

In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Ever since I met you.. you've had this effect on me. You've been able to make me feel ways I thought I would never be able to feel again. — T.K. Chapin

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

I'm a liberal arts junkie. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today — Mary Chapin Carpenter

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A dreamer born is a hero bred ... — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit ... — Harry Chapin

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Groundhog Day is a lot like a rock concert but the people are better behaved and there's a groundhog involved, — Tom Chapin

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A great many men
some comparatively small men now
if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Impatience never commanded success. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

God trades our ashes for beauty, and our pain for joy. — T.K. Chapin

All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around. — Harry Chapin

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are. — Harry Chapin

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

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra. — Harry Chapin

Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something. — Harry Chapin

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. — Charles V. Chapin

I finally like myself, at last I like myself. — Harry Chapin

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Where do shadows fall when there is only light. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams. — Harry Chapin

The light of the moon is all we've got to go on ... — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

God is the explanation of all things. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Morality is but the vestibule of religion. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends. — Harry Chapin

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars. — Rosanne Cash

I can't promise you I won't ever screw up, but I can promise you that every single day I wake up, I will love you more then the day before. — T.K. Chapin

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition. — Tom Chapin

All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by. — Harry Chapin

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Conscience is its own readiest accuser. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs. — Betty Buckley

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin