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William Ellery Channing

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The home is the chief school of human virtues.


— William Ellery Channing


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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.


— William Ellery Channing


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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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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.


— William Ellery Channing


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The world is governed by opinion.


— William Ellery Channing


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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


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Life has a higher end, than to be amused.


— William Ellery Channing


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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.


— William Ellery Channing


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


— William Ellery Channing


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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.


— William Ellery Channing


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About William Ellery Channing






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In 1835 Channing wrote the book entitled SLAVERY James Munroe and Company publiWilliam Ellery Channingr. However the struggle continued through two years during which Channing lived in Richmond working as a tutor. He lived through the increasing tension between religious liberals and conservatives and took a moderate position rejecting the extremes of both groups.

William Ellery Channing (April 7 1780 – October 2 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and along with Andrews Norton one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. He was known for his articulate and impassioned sermons and public speeches and as a prominent thinker in the liberal theology of the day.

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