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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.
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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Home - the nursery of the Infinite.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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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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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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Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
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Precept is instruction written in the sand the tide flows over it and the record is gone example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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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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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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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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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.
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Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
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