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The world is governed by opinion.
— William Ellery Channing
Home - the nursery of the Infinite.
— William Ellery Channing
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
— William Ellery Channing
War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.
— 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
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
— William Ellery Channing
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
— William Ellery Channing
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
— William Ellery Channing
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
— William Ellery Channing
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
— William Ellery Channing
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
— William Ellery Channing
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
— William Ellery Channing
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
— William Ellery Channing
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
— William Ellery Channing
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
— William Ellery Channing
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
— William Ellery Channing
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
— William Ellery Channing
Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
— William Ellery Channing
Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.
— William Ellery Channing
Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.
— William Ellery Channing
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
— William Ellery Channing
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
— William Ellery Channing
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.
— William Ellery Channing
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
— William Ellery Channing
I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
— William Ellery Channing
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
My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
— William Ellery Channing
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
— William Ellery Channing
Error is discipline through which we advance.
— William Ellery Channing
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
— William Ellery Channing