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William Ellery Channing Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/WilliamElleryChanning.jpg/220px-WilliamElleryChanning.jpg)
The foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews NORTON, one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. Dr. William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews NORTON, one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. He was known for his articulate and impassioned sermons and public speeches, and as a prominent thinker in the liberal theology of the day. Dr. Channing's religion and thought were among the chief influences on the New England Transcendentalists, though he never countenanced their views, which he saw as extreme.
Here are some famous quotes by William Ellery Channing.
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The world is governed by opinion.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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The great hope of society is individual character.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read them.
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One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
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Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
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Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.
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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.
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We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a state.
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An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account.
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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.
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What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man.
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All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly; to act nobly he must think nobly.
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The sages and heroes of history are receding from us and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.
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The mind in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature with revelation with God with itself loses its life just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.