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William Ellery Channing [1780-1842] American

Rank: 101
Writer, Preacher

William Ellery Channing 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.

Knowledge, Great, Happiness, Communication, Experience, Faith, Home, Inspirational, Intelligence, Life, Men, Nature, Politics, Power, Smile, Society, Strength, Success

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The home is the chief school of human virtues.	Home	101
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.		102
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.		103
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.	Great	104
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.	Happiness, Success	105
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.	Strength	106
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.	Men	107
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.	Smile	108
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.	Great	109
Error is discipline through which we advance.		110
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.		111
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.	Knowledge	112
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.		113
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.		114
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.	Knowledge, Power, Society	115
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.	Faith, Inspirational	116
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.	Intelligence	117
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.		118
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.	Life	119
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.	Communication, Nature	120
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.	Experience	121
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.		122
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.	Knowledge	123
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.		124
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.		125
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.		126
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.		201
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.		202
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.	Happiness	203
The great hope of society is in individual character.		204
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.		205
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.		206
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.		207
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.		208
The world is governed by opinion.	Politics	209

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