Peace Quotes by William Ellery Channing

9 Peace quotes by William Ellery Channing

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William Ellery Channing’s moral clarity appears in these nine brief lines about peace. They offer a concise, uplifting perspective for those seeking ethical calm.

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Peace is the fairest form of happiness.

William Ellery Channing

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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

William Ellery Channing

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The less of government the better, if society were kept in peace and prosperity.

William Ellery Channing

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The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country…

William Ellery Channing

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War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends…

William Ellery Channing

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The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand.…

William Ellery Channing

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The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free…

William Ellery Channing

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[Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and…

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Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the…

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All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd…

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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

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No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition…

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

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Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy,…

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