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William Ellery Channing Quotes: It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
         

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.


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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.



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The world is governed by opinion.



Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.



We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.



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 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.



May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.



Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.



Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.



All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.



It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.





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