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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
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 hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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