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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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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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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.
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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 intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
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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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One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
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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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Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
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We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
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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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The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.
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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
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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.
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