“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes…” Edwin Hubbell Chapin | Leadershipology

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

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Source: From the book as quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 251, Edwin Hubbell Chapin, as quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 251

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