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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.
William Ellery Channing
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.
William Ellery Channing
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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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.
William Ellery Channing
Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
William Ellery Channing
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
William Ellery Channing
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
William Ellery Channing
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery Channing
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
William Ellery Channing
True love is the parent of humility.
William Ellery Channing
Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
William Ellery Channing
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing
