Author: William Ellery Channing

Quotes

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

- William Ellery Channing

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

- William Ellery Channing

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

- William Ellery Channing

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

- William Ellery Channing

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.

- William Ellery Channing

The great hope of society is in individual character.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

- William Ellery Channing

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.

- William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

- William Ellery Channing

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

- William Ellery Channing

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