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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
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
Rhode Island
Reverend William Ellery Channing
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Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.
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No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life
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True love is the parent of humility.
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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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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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All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.
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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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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity thoughts of the blessed companionship of saints and angels, trust in God as the friend of truth and virtue,--these are the states of mind in which I should live.
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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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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