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One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

William Ellery Channing
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

William Ellery Channing
A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

William Ellery Channing
Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

William Ellery Channing
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

William Ellery Channing
In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

William Ellery Channing
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

William Ellery Channing
War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love.

William Ellery Channing
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

William Ellery Channing
We grow by love. Is is said, why live for others? But others are our nutriment.

William Ellery Channing
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

William Ellery Channing
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

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

William Ellery Channing
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

William Ellery Channing
The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

William Ellery Channing
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

William Ellery Channing
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

William Ellery Channing
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

William Ellery Channing
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

William Ellery Channing
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

William Ellery Channing
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

William Ellery Channing
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

William Ellery Channing
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.

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

William Ellery Channing
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

William Ellery Channing
They [referring to great ideas ] are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.

William Ellery Channing
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

William Ellery Channing
We can fix our eyes on perfection, and make almost every thing speed towards it. This is, indeed, a noble prerogative of our nature.

William Ellery Channing
Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth.

William Ellery Channing