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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
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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It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.
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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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We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
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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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Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
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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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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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Knowledge is essential to freedom.
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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
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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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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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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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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly to act nobly, we must think nobly.
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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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The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.
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