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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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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
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Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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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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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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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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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal
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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
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Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
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