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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.
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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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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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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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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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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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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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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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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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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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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