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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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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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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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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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A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity thoughts of the blessed companionship of saints and angels, trust in God as the friend of truth and virtue,--these are the states of mind in which I should live.
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
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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 is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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Home - the nursery of the Infinite.
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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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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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.
William Ellery Channing
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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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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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
William Ellery Channing
A man may quarrel with himself alone that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.
William Ellery Channing
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
William Ellery Channing
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
William Ellery Channing
