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Be true to your own highest convictions.

William Ellery Channing

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William Ellery Channing
Age: 62 †
Born: 1780
Born: April 7
Died: 1842
Died: October 2
Pastor
Preacher
Theologian
Newport
Rhode Island
Reverend William Ellery Channing
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Highest
True
Convictions

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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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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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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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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
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Precept is instruction written in the sand the tide flows over it and the record is gone example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
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Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
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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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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
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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.
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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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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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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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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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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.
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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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Knowledge is essential to freedom.
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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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