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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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We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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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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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
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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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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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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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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.
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The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.
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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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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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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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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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