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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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Newport
Rhode Island
Reverend William Ellery Channing
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More quotes by William Ellery Channing
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
William Ellery Channing
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
William Ellery Channing
The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
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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.
William Ellery Channing
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
William Ellery Channing
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
William Ellery Channing
O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness
William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
William Ellery Channing
May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
William Ellery Channing
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
William Ellery Channing
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing
In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
William Ellery Channing
No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
William Ellery Channing
Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.
William Ellery Channing
Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
William Ellery Channing
