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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
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O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness
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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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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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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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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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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
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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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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
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The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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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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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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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 deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
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