"One good anecdote is worth a volume of…" — William Ellery Channing
"One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography."
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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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If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have…
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People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
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History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image…
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During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware…
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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,
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An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their…
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You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What…
— John L'Heureux
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually…
— Alice Munro
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Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially…
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