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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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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Newport
Rhode Island
Reverend William Ellery Channing
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It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.
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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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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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There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
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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.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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True love is the parent of humility.
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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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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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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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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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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We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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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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