All William Ellery Channing Quotes
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing
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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.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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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.
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The great hope of society is in individual character.
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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.
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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