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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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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Reverend William Ellery Channing
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.
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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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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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God be thanked for books they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
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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.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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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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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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Knowledge is essential to freedom.
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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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To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
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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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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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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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Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
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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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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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