“Life has a higher end, than to be amused.”

William Ellery Channing
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“The world is governed by opinion.”

William Ellery Channing
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“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”

William Ellery Channing
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“One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.”

William Ellery Channing
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.”

William Ellery Channing
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“Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.”

William Ellery Channing
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“Error is discipline through which we advance.”

William Ellery Channing
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“True love is the parent of humility.”

William Ellery Channing
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“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity.”

William Ellery Channing
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Knowledge
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“No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.”

William Ellery Channing
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Individuality
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“Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.”

William Ellery Channing
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“To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.”

William Ellery Channing
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hope
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“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.”

William Ellery Channing
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Faith
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“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.”

William Ellery Channing
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience
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“All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.”

William Ellery Channing
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Enthusiasm
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“The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.”

William Ellery Channing
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“He is to be educated not because he’s to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.”

William Ellery Channing
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education
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“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”

William Ellery Channing
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Adversity