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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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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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A man may quarrel with himself alone that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.
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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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True love is the parent of humility.
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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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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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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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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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.
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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
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No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
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The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
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It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.
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