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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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 office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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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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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
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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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Home - the nursery of the Infinite.
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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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