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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
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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Newport
Rhode Island
Reverend William Ellery Channing
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Romance
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Universe
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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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Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
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Knowledge is essential to freedom.
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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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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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