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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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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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But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
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War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
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The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.
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Knowledge is essential to freedom.
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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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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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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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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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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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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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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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