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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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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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To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
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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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No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
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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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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal
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It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.
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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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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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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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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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