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The great hope of society is in individual character
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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Reverend William Ellery Channing
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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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Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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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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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.
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Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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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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We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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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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War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.
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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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God be thanked for books they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
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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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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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