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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
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William Ellery Channing
Age: 62 †
Born: 1780
Born: April 7
Died: 1842
Died: October 2
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Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
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We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
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True love is the parent of humility.
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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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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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Home - the nursery of the Infinite.
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Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
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No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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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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Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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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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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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