William Channing
William Channing
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The divine attributes are first developed in ourselves, and thence transferred to our Creator. The idea of God, sublime and awful as it is, is the idea of our own spiritual nature, purified and enlarged to infinity. In ourselves are the elements of the Divinity.
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Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing.
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A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.
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It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished.
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Courage considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteem
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Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth.
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Everything here but the soul of man is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul?
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The essential and unbounded mercy of my Creator is the foundation of my hope, and a broader and surer the universe cannot give me.
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Let us teach that the honor of a nation consists not in the forced submission of other states, but in equal laws and free institutions, in cultivated fields and prosperous cities; in the development of intellectual and moral power, in the diffusion of knowledge, in magnanimity and justice, in the virtues and blessings of peace.
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Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the Spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and in the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and the setting sun all overflow with beauty. The universe is its temple; and those people who are alive to it can not lift their eyes without feeling themselves encompassed with it on every side.
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We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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The only God whom our thoughts can rest on, our hearts cling to, and our conscience can recognize, is the God whose image dwells in our own souls.
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We grow by love . . . others are our nutriment.