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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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Reverend William Ellery Channing
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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
William Ellery Channing
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
William Ellery Channing
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
William Ellery Channing
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
William Ellery Channing
Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
William Ellery Channing
In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
William Ellery Channing
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
William Ellery Channing
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
William Ellery Channing
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
William Ellery Channing
May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing
The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.
William Ellery Channing
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
William Ellery Channing
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing
Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
William Ellery Channing
