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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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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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Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness
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One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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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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A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.
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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.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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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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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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