More from William Ellery Channing

  1. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
  2. Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no consc…
  3. All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
  4. 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.
  5. Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
  6. He who cannot see a brother, a child of God, a man possessing all the rights of humanity, under a skin darker than his own, wants the visio…
  7. Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
  8. The deliberate, solemn conviction of good men through the world, that slavery is a grievous wrong to human nature, will make itself felt. T…

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