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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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Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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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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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.
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No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
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Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
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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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Precept is instruction written in the sand the tide flows over it and the record is gone example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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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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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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