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Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world, We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou hast brought from heaven; for the souls Thou hast warmed with love to man, and lifted up in love to God; for the efforts of divine philanthropy which Thou hast inspired; and for that hope of a pure celestial life, through which Thy disciples triumph over death. (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. View quote
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Real greatness has nothing to do with a man's sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little. View quote
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Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that trusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator. View quote
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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue. View quote
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Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few. View quote
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another. View quote
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The home is the chief school of human virtues. View quote
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. View quote
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. View quote
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused. (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. View quote
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. View quote
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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. View quote
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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. View quote
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. View quote
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie. View quote
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. View quote
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. View quote
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. View quote
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. (William Ellery Channing)
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself. View quote
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought. View quote
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The great hope of society is in individual character. View quote
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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal. View quote
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