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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing
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William Ellery Channing
Age: 62 †
Born: 1780
Born: April 7
Died: 1842
Died: October 2
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Newport
Rhode Island
Reverend William Ellery Channing
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Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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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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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.
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The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.
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Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?
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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
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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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A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity thoughts of the blessed companionship of saints and angels, trust in God as the friend of truth and virtue,--these are the states of mind in which I should live.
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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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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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