William Ellery Channing Quotes
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“The home is the chief school of human virtues.”
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— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.”
— William Ellery Channing
“No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.”
— William Ellery Channing
“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.”
— William Ellery Channing
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
“The great hope of society is in individual character.”
— William Ellery Channing
“All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.”
— William Ellery Channing
“Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.”
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
“Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.”
— William Ellery Channing
My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
— William Ellery Channing
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
“Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.”
— William Ellery Channing
“Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.”
— William Ellery Channing
War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.
— William Ellery Channing
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
Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.
— William Ellery Channing
The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.
— William Ellery Channing
“Home - the nursery of the Infinite.”
— William Ellery Channing
True love is the parent of humility ...
— William Ellery Channing
— William Ellery Channing
But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
— William Ellery Channing
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
— William Ellery Channing
“The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.”
— William Ellery Channing
“Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.”
— William Ellery Channing
“A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.”
— William Ellery Channing
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
— William Ellery Channing
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