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William Ellery Channing

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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.


— William Ellery Channing


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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


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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.


— William Ellery Channing


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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.


— William Ellery Channing


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The great hope of society is in individual character.


— William Ellery Channing


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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.


— William Ellery Channing


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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.


— William Ellery Channing


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Error is discipline through which we advance.


— William Ellery Channing


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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


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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


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About William Ellery Channing






Did you know about William Ellery Channing?

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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