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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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Reverend William Ellery Channing
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War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.
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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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Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
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Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
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The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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The great hope of society is in individual character
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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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Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?
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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
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