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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.
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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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
William Ellery Channing
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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No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
William Ellery Channing
Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.
William Ellery Channing
Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?
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To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
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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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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal
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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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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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Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
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To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
William Ellery Channing
The great hope of society is in individual character
William Ellery Channing
May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
William Ellery Channing
