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William Ellery Channing Inspirational Quotes (108)

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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
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There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
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A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
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Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.
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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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A man may quarrel with himself alone that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.
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Precept is instruction written in the sand the tide flows over it and the record is gone example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
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Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.
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One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
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In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.
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We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
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My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
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No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
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Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
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