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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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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
William Ellery Channing
Home - the nursery of the Infinite.
William Ellery Channing
No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
William Ellery Channing
It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
William Ellery Channing
Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.
William Ellery Channing
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing
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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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.
William Ellery Channing
Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.
William Ellery Channing
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery Channing
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
William Ellery Channing
Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
William Ellery Channing
Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
William Ellery Channing
I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.
William Ellery Channing
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
William Ellery Channing
