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William Ellery Channing Quotes

«Life has a higher end,than to be amused.»
«Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.»
«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»
«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»
«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.»
«It [the soul] is truly an image of the infinity of God, and no words can do justice to its grandeur.»
«The great hope of society is in individual character»
«God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.»
«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.»
«Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.»

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