"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy……" — William Ellery Channing
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books."
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William Ellery Channing
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53 Quotes by William Ellery Channing
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for…
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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of…
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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…
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