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No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
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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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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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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Our affections are our life. We live by them they supply our warmth.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
William Ellery Channing
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
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Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
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The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.
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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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Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
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It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
William Ellery Channing
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
William Ellery Channing
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
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing
