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Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.
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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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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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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O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness
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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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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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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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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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