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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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Rhode Island
Reverend William Ellery Channing
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O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness
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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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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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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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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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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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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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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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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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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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