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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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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 must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
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The great hope of society is in individual character
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life
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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
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God be thanked for books they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
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All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.
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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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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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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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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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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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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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Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.
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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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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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