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Quotes from Forty Thousand Quotations — William Ellery Channing

1780–1842 United States

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The great hope of society is individual character.

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True love is the parent of a noble humility.

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We never know a greater character until something congenial to it has grown up within ourselves.

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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof, and obtain access for himself and family to some social library. Almost any luxury should be sacrificed to this.

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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

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The strongest love which the human heart has ever felt has been that for its Heavenly Parent. Was it not then constituted for this love?

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A friend gives himself to his beloved, and the higher his excellence the richer the gift.

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Be true to your own highest convictions.

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Is mutual service the bond of friendship?

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Labor is discovered to be the great, the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

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The true characteristic of genius—without despising rules, it knows when and how to break them.

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True friends have no solitary joy or sorrow.

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The attempt to make one false impression on the mind of a friend respecting ourselves is of the nature of perfidy. Sincerity should be observed most scrupulously.

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In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

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Let our prayers, like the ancient sacrifices, ascend morning and evening; let our days begin and end with God.

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Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

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The more discussion the better, if passion and personality be eschewed; and discussion, even if stormy, often winnows truth from error—a good never to be expected in an uninquiring age.

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All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self-determination. The best books have most beauty.

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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Ellery Channing (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.