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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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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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.
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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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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
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Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life
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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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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 must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.
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A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity thoughts of the blessed companionship of saints and angels, trust in God as the friend of truth and virtue,--these are the states of mind in which I should live.
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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