William Channing
William Channing
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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.
authors best books chiefly communion enjoy god pour precious souls superior talk
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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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.
careful practice
Practice makes perfect,So be careful what you practice.
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Difficulty is the element, and resistance the true work of a man.
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It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.
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It is better to plan less and do more
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all.
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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vainIf learning's altar vanish from the plain.
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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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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.