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We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
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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Reverend William Ellery Channing
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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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Knowledge is essential to freedom.
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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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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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The great hope of society is in individual character
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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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The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.
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It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
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All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.
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War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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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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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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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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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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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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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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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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