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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 reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal
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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
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All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.
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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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We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
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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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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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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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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
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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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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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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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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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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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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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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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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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