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Find important quotes and citations by the author William Ellery Channing.
Quote 2498
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be curedMore quotes on the topics: disease treatment inexperience
Quote 2491
It is better to plan less and do moreMore quotes on the topics: thoughts performance work diligence activity
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverieMore quotes on the topics: dreams performance work diligence
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Every man is a volume, if you know how to read himMore quotes on the topics: sources knowledge reality mankind
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.More quotes on the topics: kindness happiness success character
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The home is the chief school of human virtuesMore quotes on the topics: home education humanity family virtue
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Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate himMore quotes on the topics: ideas influence earth thoughts regeneration greatness
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Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothersMore quotes on the topics: treason humanity force intelligence discrimination
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Difficulty is the element, and resistance the true work of a manMore quotes on the topics: resistance work performance
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The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by themMore quotes on the topics: wisdom ideas mankind force serenity
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Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practiceMore quotes on the topics: practice performance perfection carefulness
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The world is governed by opinionQuote 2480
“Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writingMore quotes on the topics: mind mankind intelligence art
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One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few handsQuote 2478
It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a stateMore quotes on the topics: performance education children sense world effort virtue
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The essential and unbounded mercy of my Creator is the foundation of my hope, and a broader and surer the universe cannot give meQuote 2476
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same lifeMore quotes on the topics: freedom liberty conscience death willfulness willpower authority constraint
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Conscience is an oracle of the divinityMore quotes on the topics: conscience god religion
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There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdomQuote 2473
The less of government the better, if society were kept in peace and prosperity.More quotes on the topics: society peace freedom liberty prosperity
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Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earthQuote 2471
I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme beingQuote 2470
No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.More quotes on the topics: interest politics spirit peace love
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Christianity is not only confirmed by miracles, but is in itself, in its very essence, a miraculous religionQuote 2468
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflictMore quotes on the topics: discouragement spirit optimism experience
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Error is discipline through which we advanceMore quotes on the topics: errors experience advantage self-development knowledge
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All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think noblyMore quotes on the topics: thoughts character mind work action nobleness
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lostMore quotes on the topics: experience mind education knowledge self-development
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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.Quote 2463
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new powerQuote 2462
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable lifeMore quotes on the topics: dependence uselessness vanity fashion kindness
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The only God whom our thoughts can rest on, our hearts cling to, and our conscience can recognize, is the God whose image dwells in our own soulsMore quotes on the topics: god heart conscience soul
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It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplishedMore quotes on the topics: mind work world intelligence
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Be true to your own highest convictionMore quotes on the topics: truth conviction
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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 lifetime is unraveledMore quotes on the topics: falsehood duty lifetime knowledge
Quote 2457
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past agesQuote 2456
Life has a higher end, than to be amusedQuote 2455
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.Quote 2454
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 lifeMore quotes on the topics: character force soul thoughts morality principle love modesty
Quote 2453
No one should part with their individuality and become that of anotherMore quotes on the topics: individualism character personality uniqueness
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himselfMore quotes on the topics: doubt work value self-development character
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignoranceQuote 2450
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselvesMore quotes on the topics: happiness opportunity work intentions
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards itMore quotes on the topics: perfection speed attention
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True love is the parent of humilityQuote 2447
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitualQuote 2446
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more sereneMore quotes on the topics: enthusiasm self-development wisdom serenity
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however greatMore quotes on the topics: importance conscience preference
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurablyMore quotes on the topics: hope richness property generosity
Quote 2443
Courage considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteemMore quotes on the topics: courage causes virtue reputation
Quote 2442
Happily in this community we all are bred and born to work; and this honorable mark, set on us all, should bind together the various portions of the communityMore quotes on the topics: happiness work honorability community
Quote 2441
War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love.More quotes on the topics: war principle justice love harmony
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teachMore quotes on the topics: mankind duty work influence conscience teaching
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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.More quotes on the topics: power society knowledge virtue influence consent
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignityQuote 2437
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.More quotes on the topics: ignorance stupidity pleasure superiority
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A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledgeMore quotes on the topics: interest knowledge education wisdom time
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The great hope of society is in individual characterMore quotes on the topics: hope society individualism character
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truthQuote 2433
What is mysterious, secret, unknown, cannot at the same time be known as an object of faithQuote 2432
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can doMore quotes on the topics: character individualism uniqueness mankind
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We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peaceQuote 1652
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.Quote 1606
The world is governed by opinionQuote 1323
The home is the chief school of human virtuesMore quotes on the topics: home family virtue education humanity self-development