American - Writer | April 7, 1780 - October 2, 1842
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
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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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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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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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The world is governed by opinion.
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Error is discipline through which we advance.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
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