William Ellery Channing Quotes

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

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• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

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• Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do.

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• The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

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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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• 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.

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• Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

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• The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.

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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.

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• The great hope of society is in individual character.

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• The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

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• One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

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• Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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• No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

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

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

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• It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity.

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• It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

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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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William Ellery Channing (41)

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

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