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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
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Unitarian
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Preach
Lips
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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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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
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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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True love is the parent of humility.
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
William Ellery Channing
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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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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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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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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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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
William Ellery Channing
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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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
William Ellery Channing
No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing
In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
William Ellery Channing
