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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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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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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.
William Ellery Channing
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
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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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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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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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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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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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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.
William Ellery Channing
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
William Ellery Channing
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
William Ellery Channing
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
William Ellery Channing
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing