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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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The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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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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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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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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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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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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A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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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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To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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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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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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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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True love is the parent of humility.
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