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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
William Ellery Channing
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William Ellery Channing
Age: 62 †
Born: 1780
Born: April 7
Died: 1842
Died: October 2
Pastor
Preacher
Theologian
Newport
Rhode Island
Reverend William Ellery Channing
Unitarian
Loudly
Preach
Lips
May
Life
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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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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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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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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.
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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
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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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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
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Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.
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The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.
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Home - the nursery of the Infinite.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
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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.
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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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