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Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
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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The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
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Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.
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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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In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.
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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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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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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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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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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
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God be thanked for books they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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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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One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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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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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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