"Life has a higher end, than to be…" — William Ellery Channing
"Life has a higher end, than to be amused."
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William Ellery Channing
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53 Quotes by William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing has 53 quotes on this site.
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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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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience,…
— Giacomo Casanova
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they…
— Leonard Cohen
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this…
— H.G. Wells
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
— Charles Edward Montague
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such…
— Unknown Author
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The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be…
— Larry Niven
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...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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