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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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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Reverend William Ellery Channing
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My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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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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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
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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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We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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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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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
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No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
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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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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
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