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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.
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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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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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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
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