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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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Newport
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Reverend William Ellery Channing
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There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.
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Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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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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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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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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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
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I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.
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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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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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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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Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.
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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
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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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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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Knowledge is essential to freedom.
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True love is the parent of humility.
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