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William Ellery Channing


American
April 7, 1780
Writer
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.


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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.


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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.


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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.


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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.


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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.


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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.


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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.


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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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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 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.
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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.
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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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