“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 20.

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American priest 1814–1880

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