William Channing
William Channing
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There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when...to dare is the highest wisdom.
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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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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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It is better to plan less and do more
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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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Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see
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Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing.
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The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, or incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
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We grow by love . . . others are our nutriment.
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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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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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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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Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.