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Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
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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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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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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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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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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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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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
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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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The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.
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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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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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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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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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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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