William Ellery Channing Quotes

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  May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

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  Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

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• Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

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• Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

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• Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

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• How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

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• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

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• Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

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• Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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• It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity.

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• Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

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• God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

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• Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

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• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

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• One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

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• The world is governed by opinion.

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• Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

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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.

  William Ellery Channing

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• No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

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• Error is discipline through which we advance.

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William Ellery Channing (41)

Birth:	7th April, 1780
Death:	2nd October, 1842
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Preacher, Theologian, Writer

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