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My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
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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War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.
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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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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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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
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