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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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Precept is instruction written in the sand the tide flows over it and the record is gone example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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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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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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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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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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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 home is the chief school of human virtues.
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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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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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