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To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
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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I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.
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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
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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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Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.
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In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.
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Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life
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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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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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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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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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