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William Ellery Channing Quotes
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The true characteristic of genius - without despising rules, it knows when and how to break them (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Religion, if it be true, is central truth; and all knowledge which is not gathered round it, and quickened and illuminated by it, is hardly worthy the name (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self-determination. The best books have most beauty (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
A true friend embraces our objects as his own. We feel another mind bent on the same end, enjoying it, ensuring it, reflecting it, and delighting in our devotion to it (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures by furnishing them means of innocent ones (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail. It is even heightened by sufferings (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Whatever high station you may be placed in by fortune, remember this, that God will not estimate you by the office, but by the manner in which you fill it (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
I see nothing worth living for but the divine virtue which endures and surrenders all things for truth, duty, and mankind (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
From the loss of our friends teach us how to enjoy and improve those who remain (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
A friend gives himself to his beloved, and the higher his excellence the richer the gift (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people’s energy, intellect, and virtues (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
When our friends die, in proportion as we loved them, we die with them - we go with them. We are not wholly of the Earth (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
A true friend will appear such in leaving us to act according to our intimate conviction, will cherish this nobleness of sentiment, will never wish to substitute his power for our own (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Let our prayers, like the ancient sacrifices, ascend morning and evening; let our days begin and end with God (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
The attempt to make one false impression on the mind of a friend respecting ourselves is of the nature of perfidy. Sincerity should be observed most scrupulously (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
The more discussion the better, if passion and personality be eschewed; and discussion, even if stormy, often winnows truth from error - a good never to be expected in an uninquiring age (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
It is men of faith, not sceptics, who have made the world aware that they were in it (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
The true office of religion is to bring out the whole nature of man in harmonious activity (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Books are the true levellers. They give to all who faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
The beloved friend does not fill one part of the soul, but, penetrating the whole, becomes connected with all feeling (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Friendship heightens all our affections. We receive all the ardor of our friend in addition to our own. The communication of minds gives to each the fervor of each (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
We never know a greater character until something congenial to it has grown up within ourselves (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Taught by experience to know my own blindness, shall I speak as if I could not err, and as if others might not in some disputed points be more enlightened than myself? (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
The strongest love which the human heart has ever felt has been that for its Heavenly Parent. Was it not then constituted for this love? (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Friends should not be chosen to flatter. The quality we should prize is that rectitude which will shrink from no truth. Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship (William Ellery Channing Quotes)