William Channing
William Channing
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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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Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing.
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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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Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see
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It is better to plan less and do more
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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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I call that mind free which is not passively framed by outward circumstances, which is not swept away by the torrent of events, which is not the creature of accidental impulse, but which bends events to its own improvement, and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which it has deliberately espoused.
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I do and I must reverence human nature. I bless it for its kind affections. I honor it for its achievements in science and art, and still more for its examples of heroic and saintly virtue. These are marks of a divine origin and the pledges of a celestial inheritance; and I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.
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The essential and unbounded mercy of my Creator is the foundation of my hope, and a broader and surer the universe cannot give me.
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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vainIf learning's altar vanish from the plain.
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The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.
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The divine attributes are first developed in ourselves, and thence transferred to our Creator. The idea of God, sublime and awful as it is, is the idea of our own spiritual nature, purified and enlarged to infinity. In ourselves are the elements of the Divinity.
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The less of government the better, if society were kept in peace and prosperity.