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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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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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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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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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