He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins.
Attributed quotes — William Ellery Channing
1780–1842 United States
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No evil is intolerable but a guilty conscience.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The great hope of society is individual character.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
True love is the parent of a noble humility.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
We never know a greater character until something congenial to it has grown up within ourselves.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A friend gives himself to his beloved, and the higher his excellence the richer the gift.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Be true to your own highest convictions.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Is mutual service the bond of friendship?
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The true characteristic of genius—without despising rules, it knows when and how to break them.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
True friends have no solitary joy or sorrow.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
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