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Characters are determined not by the opinions which we profess, but by those on which our thoughts habitually fasten, which recur to them most forcibly and which color our ordinary views of God and duty.
Characters are determined not by the opinions which we profess, but by those on which our thoughts habitually fasten, which recur to them most forcibly and which color our ordinary views of God and duty.
Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial
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- William Ellery Channing
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- Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 409; printed byline: William Ellery Channing; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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