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

William Ellery Channing

Strong, Truth, Voice

William Ellery Channing (1848). “The Works”, p.310

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Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

William Ellery Channing

Men, Compassion, Effort

William Ellery Channing (1849). “Lectures [on the elevation of the working classes] with selections from his writings”, p.68

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

William Ellery Channing

Ignorance, Knowledge, Fate

William Ellery Channing (1843). “The Works of William E. Channing”, p.160

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The home is the chief school of human virtues.

William Ellery Channing

Inspirational, Home, School

William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(411 p.)”, p.69

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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

William Ellery Channing

Men, Insanity, Insane

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The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

William Ellery Channing

Country, Peace, War

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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

William Ellery Channing

Wise, Book, Men

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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

William Ellery Channing

Eye, Perfection, Excellence

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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

William Ellery Channing

Hope, Nature, Men

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

William Ellery Channing

Anecdotes, Biographies, Volume

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

William Ellery Channing

Kind, Influence, Surface

William Ellery Channing (1863). “Lectures on the Elevation of the Laboring Portion of the Community”, p.15

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O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

William Ellery Channing

Blessing, Looks, May

William Ellery Channing (1850). “Memoir: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts”, p.144

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Knowledge is essential to freedom.

William Ellery Channing

Freedom, Essentials

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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

Spiritual, Judging, Mind

William Ellery Channing (1840). “Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community”, p.35

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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

William Ellery Channing

Book, Reading, Past

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

William Ellery Channing

Freedom, People, Giving

William Ellery Channing (1837). “Essays, Literary & Political”, p.204

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

William Ellery Channing

Errors, Names, Imperfection

William Ellery Channing (1830). “Discourses, reviews, and miscellanies”, p.461

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

William Ellery Channing

Tyrants, Enemy, Worst

William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.262

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Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

William Ellery Channing

Rocks, Example, Gone

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In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

William Ellery Channing

Motivation, Opponents, Motive

William Ellery Channing (1839). “Remarks on the slavery question: in a letter to Jonathan Phillips, esq”, p.3

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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

William Ellery Channing

Individuality, Individualism, Should

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The great hope of society is in individual character

William Ellery Channing

Character, Individual, Great Hope

William Ellery Channing (1830). “Remarks on the character and writings of Fenelon”, p.58

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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

William Ellery Channing

Volume, Worthy, Humans

William Ellery Channing (1849). “Lectures [on the elevation of the working classes] with selections from his writings”, p.47

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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

William Ellery Channing

Smile, Patience, Ignorance

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

William Ellery Channing

Running, Long, Truth Is

William Ellery Channing (1839). “Remarks on the slavery question: in a letter to Jonathan Phillips, esq”, p.4

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Born: April 7, 1780
Died: October 2, 1842
Occupation: Preacher
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