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“The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.” quote by William Ellery Channing — Download Open image

“The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.”

William Ellery Channing

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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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