American - Writer | April 7, 1780 - October 2, 1842
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing
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Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
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Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
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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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