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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.
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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The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.
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I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.
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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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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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To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
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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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