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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
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
— William Ellery Channing
No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
— 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
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
— 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
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
— William Ellery Channing
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
— William Ellery Channing
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
— William Ellery Channing
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
— William Ellery Channing
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
— 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
We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
— William Ellery Channing
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
— William Ellery Channing
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
— William Ellery Channing
In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
— William Ellery Channing
Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
— William Ellery Channing
The great hope of society is in individual character.
— William Ellery Channing
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
— 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
True love is the parent of humility ...
— William Ellery Channing
Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
— William Ellery Channing
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
— William Ellery Channing
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
— William Ellery Channing
Be true to your own highest convictions.
— William Ellery Channing
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do.
— William Ellery Channing
May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
— William Ellery Channing
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
— William Ellery Channing
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
— William Ellery Channing
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
— William Ellery Channing
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
— William Ellery Channing
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
— William Ellery Channing
Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.
— William Ellery Channing
A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
— William Ellery Channing
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
— William Ellery Channing
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
— William Ellery Channing
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
— William Ellery Channing
Error is discipline through which we advance.
— William Ellery Channing
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
— 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
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
I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
— William Ellery Channing
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
— 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
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
— 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
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 man is a volume, if you know how to read him.
— William Ellery Channing
Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.
— 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
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
— William Ellery Channing
Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
— William Ellery Channing
The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
— William Ellery Channing
Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
— William Ellery Channing
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
— William Ellery Channing
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
— William Ellery Channing