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William Ellery Channing

Born 1817 AD; death year unknown

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1817 AD

Every man is a volume if you know how to read them.

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02c. 1817 AD

An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account.

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03c. 1817 AD

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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04c. 1817 AD

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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05c. 1817 AD

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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06c. 1817 AD

The great hope of society is in individual character.

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07c. 1817 AD

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.

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08c. 1817 AD

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

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09c. 1817 AD

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

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10c. 1817 AD

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

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11c. 1817 AD

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

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12c. 1817 AD

The world is governed by opinion.

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13c. 1817 AD

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

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14c. 1817 AD

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.

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15c. 1817 AD

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

William Ellery Channing / quote

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