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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.
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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Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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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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We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
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To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
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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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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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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.
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.
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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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God be thanked for books they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
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True love is the parent of humility.
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