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William Ellery Channing Quotes

«All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.»
«He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.»
«The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.»
«To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.»
«Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.»
«It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.»
«Through the vulgar error of undervaluing what is common, we are apt indeed to pass these by as of little worth. But as in the outward creation, so in the soul, the common is the most precious.»
«A wail in the wind is all I hear;A voice of woe for a lover's loss.»
«Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing.»
«But the ground of a man's [sic] culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.»

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