"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."
― William Ellery Channing
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Power
More From William Ellery Channing
- "The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
- "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."
- "Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."
More In Power
- "It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."― Epicurus
- "I mean, I’d love to have a private jet – I know people who fly by private jet all the time… I’ve hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it’s a great way to travel!"― Marc Jacobs
- "I’m learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company."― Zoe Saldana