More from William Ellery Channing

  1. Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
  2. Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
  3. Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
  4. Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establi…
  5. 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.
  6. How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
  7. 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…
  8. It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

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