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Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
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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To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
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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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Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
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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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In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.
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