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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach it's fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
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 (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
I have chosen for the subject of this lecture self culture, or the care which every man owes to himself, to the unfolding and perfecting of his nature (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on! (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that trusts itself to Him in well doing as to a faithful Creator (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness’ sake? (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Ideas are the mightiest influence on Earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
He is to be educated not because he’s to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
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 Quotes)
She was little known beyond her home; but there she silently spread around her that soft, pure light, the preciousness of which is never fully understood till it is quenched (William Ellery Channing Quotes)
That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food is undoubtedly true; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much than from eating too little (William Ellery Channing Quotes)