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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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One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
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But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
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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.
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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.
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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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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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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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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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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.
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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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Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
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A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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