Compass Quote by William Ellery Channing

“It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.”

William Ellery Channing

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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…

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A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

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Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience,…

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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

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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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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with…

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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, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden…

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