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• Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Poetry, Joyful

  William Ellery Channing (1843). “Poems”

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• Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

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  Believe, Sacrifice, Greatness

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.8

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• True love is the parent of humility.

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  Love, Humility, Parent

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• Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

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  Freedom, Names, People

  William Ellery CHANNING (1830). “The Importance and Means of a National Literature”, p.7

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• Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

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  Giving, Delight, Infinite

  William Ellery Channing (1888). “The Works of William E. Channing”

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• The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.

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  Home, Heart, School

  William Ellery Channing (1837). “Essays, Literary & Political”, p.364

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• I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

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  Angel, Men, Rights

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.259

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• Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

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  Life, Responsibility, Influence

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.285

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• Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

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  Love, Simple, Feelings

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• [Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].

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  Beautiful, Perfect One, Silence

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• The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

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  War, Men, Evil

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Lecture on War”, p.11

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• Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

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  Inspirational, Character, Men

  William Ellery Channing (1873). “The complete works of W. E. Channing, D. D., with an introduction”

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• Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life

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  Lying, Character, Soul

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.4

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• The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

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  Nature, Cheer, Communication

  William Ellery Channing (1830). “Remarks on the character and writings of Fenelon”, p.7

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• I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

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  Sea, Laughing, Boat

  William Ellery Channing, “From: A Poet's Hope”

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• Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread in widening circles, through a nation or humanity. Through my vice I intensify the taint of vice throughout the universe. Through my misery I make multitudes sad. On the other hand, every development of my virtue makes me an ampler blessing to my race. Every new truth that I gain makes me a brighter light to humanity.

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  Blessing, Light, Race

  William Ellery Channing (1888). “The Works of William E. Channing”

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• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levellers. They give to all, who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.

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  Spiritual, Book, Communication

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.16

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• Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

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  Home, Infinite, Nursery

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• Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.

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  Art, Light, Sky

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.4

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• We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.

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  Appreciation, Character, Knows

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• Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

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  Book, Men, Roof

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.17

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• I am a living member of the great family of all souls.

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  Oneness, Soul, Members

  William Ellery Channing (1873). “The Perfect Life: In Twelve Discourses”, p.88

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• Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.

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  Responsibility, Giving, Justice

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• Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.

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  Spiritual, Book, Race

  William Ellery Channing, American Unitarian Association (1855). “A selection from the works of William E. Channing”, p.430

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• A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

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  Inspirational, Mean, Men

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.13

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