Author: William Ellery Channing

Quotes

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.

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

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

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

- 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

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

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

- William Ellery Channing

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

- 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

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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