William Ellery Channing

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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

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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.

William Ellery Channing

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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

William Ellery Channing

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

William Ellery Channing

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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.

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.

William Ellery Channing

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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

William Ellery Channing

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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.

William Ellery Channing

happiness

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

William Ellery Channing

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The great hope of society is in individual character.

William Ellery Channing

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