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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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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Knowledge is essential to freedom.
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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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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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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.
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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 is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly to act nobly, we must think nobly.
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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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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.
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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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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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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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