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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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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Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.
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Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
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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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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
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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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