William Ellery Channing

(16 votes)   How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

William Ellery Channing
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(405 votes)   Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(137 votes)   No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(122 votes)   To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(122 votes)   True love is the parent of humility.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(108 votes)   Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

William Ellery Channing

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(103 votes)   Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(103 votes)   The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(97 votes)   He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(95 votes)   Even in evil, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see, in suffering and temptation, proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.

William Ellery Channing

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(84 votes)   It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(84 votes)   There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when...to dare is the highest wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

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(71 votes)   Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(43 votes)   Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

William Ellery Channing
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(43 votes)   Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

William Ellery Channing
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