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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
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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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
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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 good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.
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