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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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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
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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
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.
William Ellery Channing
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery Channing
The great hope of society is in individual character
William Ellery Channing
Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
William Ellery Channing
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.
William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
William Ellery Channing
Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.
William Ellery Channing
Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
William Ellery Channing
We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
William Ellery Channing
Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing
All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly to act nobly, we must think nobly.
William Ellery Channing
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
William Ellery Channing
Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
William Ellery Channing