Quote #23
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
More from William Ellery Channing
- 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.
- Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
- 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…
- Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
- Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
- Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
- Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
- Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establi…