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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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 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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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
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Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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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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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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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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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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