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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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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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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.
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I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.
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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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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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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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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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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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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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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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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
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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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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
William Ellery Channing
It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
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