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William Ellery Channing
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"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."
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William Ellery Channing
Topic(s):
Smile
"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."
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William Ellery Channing
Topic(s):
Power
"The world is governed by opinion."
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William Ellery Channing
Topic(s):
Politics
"Life has a higher end, than to be amused."
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William Ellery Channing
Topic(s):
Life
"The great hope of society is in individual character."
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William Ellery Channing
Topic(s):
Hope
"God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
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William Ellery Channing
Topic(s):
Intelligence
"The home is the chief school of human virtues."
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William Ellery Channing
Topic(s):
Home
"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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William Ellery Channing
Topic(s):
Great
"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
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William Ellery Channing
Topic(s):
Happiness
"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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William Ellery Channing
Topic(s):
Government
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