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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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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Newport
Rhode Island
Reverend William Ellery Channing
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
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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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Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.
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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.
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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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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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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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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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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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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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Knowledge is essential to freedom.
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