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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal
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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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
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The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
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Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
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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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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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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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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
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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.
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
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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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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
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