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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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
Rhode Island
Reverend William Ellery Channing
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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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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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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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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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
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