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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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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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The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
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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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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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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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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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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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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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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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