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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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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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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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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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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
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But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
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The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.
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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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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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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
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Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
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No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
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Home - the nursery of the Infinite.
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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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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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