William Ellery Channing (American - Writer)
April 7, 1780 - October 2, 1842
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
The great hope of society is in individual character.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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