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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
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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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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