William Ellery Channing Quotes
Top 66 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
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.
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.
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.
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
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.
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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.
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.
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.