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A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.
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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We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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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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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
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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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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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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
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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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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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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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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?
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