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William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing

"William Ellery Channing" (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and along with Andrews Norton, (1786-1853), one of Unitarianism's leading theologians.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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The great hope of society is in individual character.
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