William Channing
William Channing
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We grow by love . . . others are our nutriment.
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There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdom.
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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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He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him with rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks. But he is still great . . . .
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Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see
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I call that mind free which is not passively framed by outward circumstances, which is not swept away by the torrent of events, which is not the creature of accidental impulse, but which bends events to its own improvement, and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which it has deliberately espoused.
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I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves.... Indeed every man (sic), in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.
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He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
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Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.
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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.