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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.
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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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
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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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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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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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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 chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
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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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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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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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We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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