How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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William Ellery Channing
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About William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton (1786–1853), one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. Channing was known for his articulate and impassioned sermons and public speeches, and as a prominent thinker in the liberal theology of the day. His religion and thought were among the chief influences on the New England Transcendentalists although he never countenanced their views, which he saw a…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by William Ellery ChanningThe great hope of society is in individual character.
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.
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.
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.
The world is governed by opinion.
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 cheeri…
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
The great hope of society is in individual character.
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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 let…
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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 cheeri…
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.