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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.
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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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
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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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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.
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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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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
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