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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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More quotes by William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing
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?
William Ellery Channing
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
William Ellery Channing
Life has a higher end, than to be amused
William Ellery Channing
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
William Ellery Channing
The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.
William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing
The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
William Ellery Channing
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
William Ellery Channing
Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
William Ellery Channing
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
William Ellery Channing
We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
William Ellery Channing
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
William Ellery Channing
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
William Ellery Channing
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
William Ellery Channing
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
William Ellery Channing
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
William Ellery Channing
The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.
William Ellery Channing
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
William Ellery Channing
