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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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Newport
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Reverend William Ellery Channing
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Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
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Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
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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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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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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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I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.
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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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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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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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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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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.
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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.
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