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Book Quotes by William Ellery Channing
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of…
- Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written for men, in the language of men, and that its…
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