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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
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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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I am a living member of the great family of all souls and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.
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The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
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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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Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
William Ellery Channing
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
William Ellery Channing
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
William Ellery Channing
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
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