William Channing
William Channing
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Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth.
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It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished.
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Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing.
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It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.
authors best books chiefly communion enjoy god pour precious souls superior talk
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all.
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We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
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He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him with rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks. But he is still great . . . .
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We grow by love . . . others are our nutriment.
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Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see
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The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, or incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.