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William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing
American Writer
Born: Apr 7, 1780
Died: Oct 2, 1842
Character Every Great Life Own You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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. William Ellery Channing
Great Spiritual Judge Tyranny Aid Others Minds Great Minds Superiority Over Make Intellectual Establish Break Them Themselves Used Lethargy Multitude Rouse
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. William Ellery Channing
Best Great Thoughts Men Superior Pour Enjoy Minds Books Ours Great Men Give Through Most Talk Souls Chiefly Precious Intercourse Us
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Ellery Channing
Strength Conflict Strong Difficulties Spirit Discourage Human Meant Grow Human Spirit Rouse
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. William Ellery Channing
Inspirational Love Faith Taking Form Aspiration
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. William Ellery Channing
Life God Spiritual Past Books Distant Spiritual Life Voices Dead Make Us Heirs Ages
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. William Ellery Channing
Knowledge Dignity Quality Mind Determines Quantity Which
Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do. William Ellery Channing
Character Own Other Our Exactly Us Meant Each
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself. William Ellery Channing
Man Better First Himself His Condition Undoubtedly Labor
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. William Ellery Channing
You Man Men Every Volume Know Him Read How Every Man
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. William Ellery Channing
Character Human Being Own Every Other Others His Intended Human Being
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. William Ellery Channing
Experience Lost Nothing Our Entered Which Ever
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. William Ellery Channing
Great Me Important Object More However Than Any Far Compass Conscience Preserve
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie. William Ellery Channing
Yourself Give Rather Reverie Than Anything
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. William Ellery Channing
Good Worth Anecdote Volume Biography
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. William Ellery Channing
Happiness Success Easy How Midst Amiable
Life has a higher end, than to be amused. William Ellery Channing
Life Higher End Than Amused
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. William Ellery Channing
Kind Surface Covers Influence Measured Extent
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled. William Ellery Channing
You Will Duty Thread See Weaving He Loom False Effect Breaks Who Present

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