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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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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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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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War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. 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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Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.
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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
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Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
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The great hope of society is in individual character
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
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True love is the parent of humility.
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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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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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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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