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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
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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But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
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Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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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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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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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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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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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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Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.
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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
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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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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.
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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness
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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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