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Knowledge is essential to freedom.
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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Rhode Island
Reverend William Ellery Channing
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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.
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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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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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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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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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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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The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
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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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No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
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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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Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
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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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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery Channing
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
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