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William Ellery Channing has 56 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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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…
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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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…
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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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,…
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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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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual…
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what…
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most…
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Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.
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I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came…
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So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So…
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When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala.…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us…
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.
— Julius Charles Hare
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When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
— Walter Savage Landor
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Clinton masturbates in the sinks.
— Ann Coulter
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