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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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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
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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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I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.
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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 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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The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
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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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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
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Home - the nursery of the Infinite.
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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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I am a living member of the great family of all souls and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.
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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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