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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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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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We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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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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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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A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.
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Knowledge is essential to freedom.
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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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A man may quarrel with himself alone that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.
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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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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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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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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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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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To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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